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[lethosor]

The OS X executable is currently named "dwarfort.exe", which tends to confuse new players. Some people have concluded that the OS X package contains a Windows executable and opened reports on the bug tracker, or tried to run it through wine (which doesn't work because it is an OS X executable). Running it directly doesn't work either (unless the libraries DF requires are installed system-wide, which almost certainly won't be the case with fmodex and the version of libstdc++ DF uses) - the "df" script has to be used instead. This is also the case on Linux, but the executable is named "Dwarf_Fortress" and placed in the "libs" folder, which reduces its visibility and is a more fitting name. I'm not particularly concerned about the executable name, but I do think that moving it into the "libs" folder on OS X as well would reduce confusion, and would only require editing the "df" script.