Macintosh Software Archive

Mission Summary:

The Archive supplies UC Irvine's Macintosh computing community with software which has been licensed for UC Irvine, as well as popular freeware and shareware. The Archive is supplied and maintained by the Network & Academic Computng Services, as a service to UC Irvine.

Questions, comments and content requests can be emailed to: nacs@uci.edu

Access Instructions

The Macintosh Archive is accessible across UCInet via a variety of methods:

• Mac OS X
• FTP
• Mac OS 7.6,8,9: AppleShare IP

Mac OS X:

If your Macintosh is running Mac OS X 10.0 or later...

1] Select Go to Server from the Finder's Go menu.

2] Enter mac.nacs.uci.edu in the dialog box.

3] Select "NACS Mac Archive" as the volume to mount.

4] Connect as Guest.

5] Run software installers direct from the NACS Mac Archive volume on your desktop, or copy software to your computer's hard drive.

6] Drag the NACS Mac Archive volume to the Trash to log out.

Note : Please do not run Archive software across the network on a day-to-day basis. Idle connections will be disconnected after two hours.

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FTP:

Anyone on UCI's network can access the Archive with a FTP client, such as Fetch or Interarchy:
ftp://visitor:visitor@mac.nacs.uci.edu

Note: Do not use a web browser as an FTP client for the Archive. You must use either Fetch or Anarchie when downloading software from the Archive.

When using Fetch:
To recursively download folders within folders, highlight the top-most folder and then select "Get Folders and Files..." from the Remote menu.

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AppleShare IP:

If your Macintosh is running Open Transport 1.1.2 with AppleShare Client 3.7, or Mac OS 8 or better...

1] Select the AppleShare icon in the Chooser .

2] Click on the Server IP Address button.

3] Enter mac.nacs.uci.edu in the dialog box.

4] Connect as Guest, or as user "visitor" with the password "visitor".

5] Run software installers direct from the NACS Mac Archive volume on your desktop, or copy software to your computer's hard drive.

6] Drag the NACS Mac Archive volume to the Trash to log out.

Note : Please do not run Archive software across the network on a day-to-day basis, nor configure your Macintosh to mount the Archive volume at startup.

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Revised: April 24, 2005