source4_9f.tar.gz contains the the whole source code to build acedb on many different machines, including DARWIN/Mac OSX. Directions are included. acebins.tar.gz contains only the binaries built against fink, GTKlib and Xfree86. You can get fink and Xfree86 from: labace file was taken from: It is empty, so you need to populate it with the sample.ace file. Directions are on the web site.