Without setting up studio in a vm as jason described, you can still view documentation and work in a terminal window. Open a mac terminal and type in the ccontrol command:
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blackmac:~ eclark$ ccontrol list
Configuration 'CACHE'
directory: /Applications/Cache
versionid: 2011.1.0.190.0
conf file: cache.cpf (SuperServer port = 1972, WebServer = 57772)
status: down, last used Fri May 21 12:38:24 2010
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ccontrol list shows you what cache instance you have installed. In my case I have one instance named CACHE. When you DO get around to installing studio on windows to connect, you will need the superserver port and webserver ports to set up a connection from the cube. Meanwhile...
If ccontrol shows the status as "down" like mine does, then you need to start cache. use:
ccontrol start cache
and later to stop it use:
ccontrol stop cache quietly
If you don't add "quietly" then you will be prompted for some information.
Now that you know where cache is, and have it up and running, you can view the getting started page. Go to url:
http://localhost:57772/csp/docbook/DocBook.UI.Page.cls?KEY=GettingStarted
Note that the port after localhost is the webserver port shown by "ccontrol list". The cache install may also have shown you this url during the install process (if you installed using the .dmg file, you wouldn't have seen it)
The getting started page has the tutorials and links to other information.
To start a cache shell:
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blackmac:~ eclark$ csession cache
Node: blackmac.local, Instance: CACHE
USER>
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You are at a prompt where you can enter object script commands in the USER namespace. You probably want to dive right into multivalue though, so:
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USER>mv
Terminal type CACHE loaded.
[202] 'xterm-color' not on file.
* MultiValue Shell *
* Cache for UNIX (Apple Mac OS X for x86-64) 2011.1 (Build 190U) Mon May 3 2010 20:42:33 EDT*
[150] Two digit years default to the years 1900 to 1999.
USER:
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And you are at a familiar TCL command prompt. You can use LIST to see what's in the VOC, ED or JED to edit items, etc. To exit the mv shell, use the QUIT command, and to exit the object script shell use the H command.