>>      I have actually not yet understood what it wants to tell me ;), since I got your attention, is there an easy way to run a babel client under macosx?
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> for coping with the mac I use "macports" to get a compiler and support
> for open source software.

        Ah, same here (even though I would have thought you a homebrew user, no idea why) ;)
Alas, "port search babel" does not find anything babeld related...

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> I haven't ever tried to run babeld on the mac I have, I will put it on

> my list…

        I just thought it would be nice to finally get into the "stay connected while switching between wired and wire-less fun", but this is in no way essential for me.