On Sun, 9 Dec 2007, Violetta Zharov wrote: I'm no expert on Macs (in fact, I don't even own one), but it would seem you're not the only one experiencing problems: see if you can find helpful hints from the recent debate on the user list http://lists.wfu.edu/pipermail/gretl-users/2007-December/thread.html Alternatively, you may want to try 1.6.5 and see if it fixes things for you: you can find it at http://downloads.sourceforge.net/gretl/gretl-1.6.5.dmg?modtime=1179397378... Of course, you'd miss all the nice things we've put into 1.7.0, but maybe 1.6.5 is good enough for your project. Two more things: I've seen in the past people who were able to bypass the problem of gretl not starting when clicked on a mac by running it from an x11 terminal; moreover, a bugfix release is due soon, but possibly not soon enough for you :-( Just for the record: is your Mac an Intel Mac or a powerpc? If I'm not mistaken, the link above will give you a dmg of the 1.6.5 version for a ppc mac, while the 1.7.0 dmg is meant to be used on an intel mac. Hopefully someone who actually _has_ a mac can be more helpful. Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti Dipartimento di Economia Università Politecnica delle Marche r.lucchetti(a)univpm.it http://www.econ.univpm.it/lucchetti