Z soar-7.0.0.beta.full.tar.gz Macintosh releases contain the suffix hqx to indicate these files are binhexed self extracting archives. Most Mac compression utilities have the ability to un-binhex a file. An extension of PPC indicates a PowerMac specific release for MacSoar 7.0.0 only, all later MacSoar releases use a fat binary, or executable that contains both 68K and PPC executable code. The latest Soar 6 release for Unix is 6.2.5.tar. All of the Unix release filenames are identified via the prefix 6.X.YZ where X and Y are numbers, and Z is a letter.
X corresponds to a major revision and Y to a minor revision.
Z is one of the letters a, b or g standing for alpha, beta and gamma respectively, as explained above. There is also some installation information for WinSoar and installation information for MacSoar . Historians will want to read the original release notes from Bob Doorenbos detailing the initial version of Soar 6. It includes programming facilities tailored for Soar and a powerful interface for interacting with Soar itself. Z TclSoar replaces the command-line interpreter initially provided in Soar 6.0.0 with the Tcl embeddable, programmable shell.