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Porting Unix Command-Line Tools to Mac OS X

Posted by pudge on from the mmmm-command-lines dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Over at Apple has posted a technote on porting Unix programs to Mac OS X. Nothing earth-shattering, but nice to see it all collected."

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  1. its about iTime. by Beatbyte · · Score: 3, Interesting

    its about time. i figured with the BSD core they would be a lot quicker at it than this.

    Especially trying to support some new servers

    Either way, this may help the adoption of the Apple into the IT industry a little more.

    It'll be interesting to see whether or not they're included into the next release of X.

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  2. Re:Makes Mac OS easier to use! by BigBir3d · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I believe the AC was trying to poke fun at Microsoft for moving away from command line while at the same time Apple is moving towards it. Compare Windows 98 to XP and OS 9 to OS X.

  3. Re:So by Znonymous+Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Because their target market isn't geeks.

    Then why are they selling servers?

    There are far more users who couldn't care less about GNU tools and never want to see a command-line.

    If they put the GNU tools there, non geeks would never know about it.

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  4. Re:Makes Mac OS easier to use! by kalidasa · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I believe the AC was trying to poke fun at Microsoft for moving away from command line while at the same time Apple is moving towards it. Compare Windows 98 to XP and OS 9 to OS X.

    I don't. I think the AC doesn't yet know the difference between a command line interface and a command line tool. He'll learn, he's in the right place.

    I'd shy away from making the Win98:WinXP::OS9:OSX analogy, if I were you. Too many lusers will take it too literally./p.