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The latest release of yorick is 1.5; the source code including all the latest patches as a gzipped tar file, extension .tgz. For MacIntosh MacOS 8 or 9, the latest functioning release is 1.4. For MacOS X, install XDarwin, and use the UNIX version of yorick-1.5.

Note that the UNIX gzip and tar archiving programs are available without charge for both MS Windows (PowerArchiver 6.1) and MacOS 8 or 9 ( MacGzip , suntar). On a UNIX platform, you can unpack a .tgz file with a command like this:

     gzip -dc yorick-1.5.07.tgz | tar xvf -

There are a few places at this site you cannot yet reach from these HTML documents. Here is a link to the top level directory so you can explore the whole tree.

Source distributions

  • yorick-1.5.07.tgz    latest yorick source distribution
  • yorick-doc.tgz    complete HTML, PDF, and TeXinfo documentation. This tarball includes all the yorick documentation at this website, prebuilt from the source and scripts in the tarball itself.

After you unpack the source distribution, detailed build instructions for UNIX (or MacOS X) are contained in the file yorick-1.5/README. For MS Windows, look in the yorick-1.5/win directory.

Yorick configures itself and compiles on essentially every modern flavor of UNIX, including Linux, FreeBSD, MacOS X, IBM AIX, Sun Solaris, Compaq OSF, SGI Irix, and HPUX. The only requirements are an ANSI C compiler (such as gcc) and the X Window System (such as XFree86). Additionally, as of 1.5.07, yorick compiles under MSVC++ on MS Windows machines.

Here are the final yorick-1.4 source distributions. These are obsolete, except for the MacIntosh distribution, which is the only version of yorick that will ever run under MacOS 8 or 9.

Linux, UNIX, and MacOS X

Here is a directory where various other files relating to Linux, UNIX, and MacOS X yorick releases are archived. Note that there is a perl script called rpm2cpio which allows you to unpack rpm files on any UNIX platform. Similarly, .deb files may be unpacked anywhere using the UNIX ar utility.

The binary distributions include complete documentation in the Y_SITE/doc directory. However, if you want to install this complete website locally with a package manager, you can use one of these complete documentation distributions:

MS Windows 9x, NT, 2000, XP?

  • yorick1507.exe    self-extracting MS Windows binary distribution.
  • yorick-doc.exe    complete documentation package (formatted differently than in binary distribution).

MacIntosh MacOS 8 or 9

  • yorick-1.4.sea.bin    MacIntosh MacOS 8 or 9 PowerPC binary distribution.
  • gist-1.4.sea.bin    MacIntosh PowerPC gist CGM browser (always part of the UNIX distributions).
  • yorick-doc.sea.bin    complete documentation package (formatted differently than in binary distribution).

Other documentation

The binary distributions and the complete documentation distributions already contain PDF versions of the manual and quick reference cards. If you want to study them before you get the full packages, here they are:
  • yorick.pdf    user manual in PDF format.
  • refs.pdf    quick reference cards in PDF format.
Yorick can rebuild the documentation on this website starting from

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