Joakim's Code Page

Below you can find some tips, set-up suggestions, applications and scripts I have written that might be of general interest. If you use any of these programs/scripts, please feel welcome to send me an e-mail.

Please note that everything provided below is provided as it is and without any warranties of any kind. Use at your own risk.

Mac OS X setup and installation of AFS

• General instructions on how to install/configure Mac OS X and suggested applications are given here.
• If you have a working Mac OS X installation, you might want to install AFS. Instructions are here.

Applications for Mac OS X

• ps2printer. This small application fixes an annoying omission in Mac OS X, namely the possibility to send postscript files directly to postscript printers. By accident I found the UNIX tool atprint that can do exactly this, send postscript files to a postscript printer and ps2printer is just a wrapper around this command which lets you drop postscript files onto it and they are then sent to your selected postscript printer. Mac OS X 10.1.2 or higher are needed
  Download version 0.1 (February 5, 2002).

Scripts for UNIX / Linux

• bibsort.pl. This little Perl script takes a LaTeX file and sorts the references either accoring to occurance or alphabetically.

Scripts for the Macintosh

• texpurge.pl. This Perl script takes all the folders/volumes dropped on it and moves all the auxiliary files (.aux, .dvi, .log and .ps files created by LaTeX) to the trash. It will only delete files where a corresponding .tex file is found. You can get it in different versions:
  texpurge.pl - the Perl script itslef, requires MacParl to be installed.
  texpurge.sit - the script as a standalone application. Does not require MacPerl to be installed.
  texpurge.sit.hqx - the script as a standalone application. Does not require MacPerl to be installed.
  

  These scripts are made using MacPerl.

This page was last modified 2003-06-12 .