What they forgot to ask was if you had the developer's tools installed. If not, you can sign up to be an Apple developer and download them. The basic membership is free (web only) …

You mean I need the developer's tools just to write any program at all? Ah. That MIGHT be my problem.... Thanks...... greg ------------------ Though the day's been really lo…

BTW: more info on the carbonated Emacs... It's version 19.14 and is *DAWWWG* slow. I love emacs; but, I'll stick with the Terminal.app-bound, fast, v.20.7.1 version.

You mean there's another, faster program included in the terminal? How do I access it???? I'm new to all this stuff...especially Unix, so it's confusing sometimes... greg -----…

I think he refers to the version of emacs that you run "inside" the terminal. Just write "emacs" without the " in a terminal and emacs will start. Good luck /Gabbe

Just fooling around with CC before I head to class, I compiled a program I recently wrote for a class. Got the usual warnings that I got when I compiled it on the Unix machines at…

Quote: Originally posted by jguidroz: On a unix machine, you type gcc (cc for X) filename. At the next prompt, you type a.out(the file that was just created) and it s…

Thanks! Now I wonder is there is a way to fix this so I don't have to type ./

Quote: Originally posted by jguidroz: Thanks! Now I wonder is there is a way to fix this so I don't have to type ./ There certainly is. But please DON'T DO IT!! …

You can add the current directory to your path by adding the following line to your .tcshrc file (in your home dir): setenv PATH {$PATH}:. This causes the shell to search the pat…

I have been trying to compile PHP 4.0.3pl1 as a static module of Apache 1.3.14 withou any success, I followed instructions of fellows saying that it compiles with no problem but wh…

matt vaughn already made a installer for apache-mysql-php 4 do a search on this section of the site. it was a whole lot easier than installing trying to compile. lou

Thanks Lou, But Matt package is for Mac OS X Public Beta and doesn't work with Mac OS X Server. Do you know if there a pre-compiled package for Mac OS X Server? ---------------…

nope. sorry.

How do I access and change the text in a NSTextView? I've looked in the java browser and on Apple's cocoa pages but I can't find it. I'm looking for something like NSTextView.setT…

Quote: Originally posted by gabrielf: How do I access and change the text in a NSTextView? I've looked in the java browser and on Apple's cocoa pages but I can't find it…

Is it possible to use pure java in Cocoa applications? For example I would like to use java's string class but I can't. The NSString seams to be used instead. String s = new Strin…

Quote: Originally posted by gabrielf: String s = new String(10); Is a perfectly valid java statement Thanks, /Gabbe I don't know WHAT version of the JDK you are…

Hahaha, how embarrassing! I was so sure you could do that so I didn't check the API docs I thought it was pretty logical since you could write things like myString = "Hello" + 5;…

I'd like to use rdist from my Linux machine to synchronize with my iMac running Mac OS X. I am experienced with rdist. However, the iMac always rejects requests to connect using …

I just took the perl code from the dockling ideas thread, and inserted it into another dockling I had lying around to make a dockling that checks the baseball scores and puts them …

Has anyone here tried to download Launch Pad from gnustep and tried to construct an objC based Cocoa app that will run on any platform supported by gnustep?

Hi. My problem is very simple. I don't have MacOS X so I ask you : on macos X is return character : -> chr(13)+chr(10) (Like Windows or UNIX) -> chr(13) (like MacOS …

The Cocoa and BSD APIs use the UNIX convention, a bare linefeed only -- chr(10). I think this is the most typical case you'll find on the system, at least at the lower levels. I'…

FYI. In Java, you can inspect the line.separator environment variable to determine the return character(s) of the host operating system. Use this to avoid hard-coding a certain con…