The archive ijvm-tools-0.9-mac.zip contains the files: README.txt ijvm ijvm-asm mic1 mic1-asm ijvm.spec ijvm.mal The programs are compiled from the source code in ijvm-tools-0.9 on Mac OSX Snow Leopard. To install the tools, unzip the archive ijvm-tools-0.9-mac.zip in your home directory. Assuming that the archive is in your home directory, this can be done in a terminal window as: cd ~ unzip ijvm-tools-0.9-mac.zip This should create the directory ijvm-tools-0.9-mac in your home directory. To make the tools easy accessable in a terminal window, you should add the following lines to the file ~/.profile export PATH=${PATH}:${HOME}/ijvm-tools-0.9-mac export IJVM_SPEC_FILE=${HOME}/ijvm-tools-0.9-mac/ijvm.spec The ijvm-tools should then be available when you open a new terminal. \Christian Storm Pedersen , 13 Nov 2009.