For people who don't want wild goose chases I'd suggest reading the many helpful posts that are already in the Mac OS X Developer section. I'm going to move this one over to Mac …

yes...go to www.osxfaq.com/ports.html

I use lynx successfully. I think I pulled down the binary but in general, before you can run "configure", you need to use/cp the customized guess.* stuff from /usr/libexec into th…

I use the precompiled darwin version from www.darwinfo.org under the ports section with no probs at all. What's so hard about getting lynx to work?

Quote: What's so hard about getting lynx to work? Nothing at all. I downloaded the source and compiled it successfully first try. my unix experience is very l…

Well, I have Lynx installed and I set a line to load it weekly with the web page I need to access, but I'm getting the following error: Quote: Terminal initialisation …

Are you logging in remotely? Try using a different shell and reproducing the problem. Also, when compiling apps: cp /usr/libexec/config.* . ./configure make make install -------…

its not recognizing OSX, so you need to copy /usr/libexec/config.guess over the one that came with the lynx package here are instructions: http://www.osxfaq.com/ports.html#q10 d…

I have lynx up and running without a problem. I think I've used powerpc-apple-rhapsody when I ran configure. Try it out.

Just wanted to share what I can: The Mac OS 9 1 folder on your hard drive is there because Mac OS X creates a folder for every CD you insert into your drive while running Mac OS X…

Thanks for the advice. I released later that I had the OS 9 CD in and was hoping that part was ignored!!!! I have not tried Norton yet because I have not been able to find the bet…

Help!!! Help!!! I tried using the Norton Disk Doctor. Now my drive it totally dead. Not just the OSX partition but all three. Unfortunately all of my files were backed up onto the…

Yep. Apple doesn't want to break backward-compatibility with NeXTStep code (and wants to avoid any possible name collisions with Carbon stuff also) so they kept it.

Actually back when NeXT was shipping NEXTSTEP, all the Classes and Stuff were namend starting with NX. When OPENSTEP was released they changed to NS to make it clear that the prog…

To change the icons just edit/change the icons inside the Desktop.app bundle. I don't know how to change their destination. The path to the icons are: /System/Library/CoreService…

For step by step instructions on how to change the icons, look at ResExcellence: http://www.ResExcellence.com/hack_ht...11-03-00.shtml I'm not sure how to change the destination. …

Of course a day after I posted that, resedit comes up with the hack. But, does anyone know how to change the folders that they point to? -Max

Well there might be an easier way, but on a lark i tried renaming the Applications folder to see what would happen, and the button then jumped to another directory, i can't remembe…

To my knowledge ASP only runs server side on Microsoft IIS.

http://www.nodeworks.com/asp/ That's one of several asp modules for apache. I don't know how to use it but at least it is possible to use asp with apache so it should be possible…

Dont use ASP. Use PHP instead. [This message has been edited by Gee4orce (edited 11-03-2000).]

ASP sucks. Use JSP instead

Whether or not JSP or ASP or PHP suck, does anyone have any idea how to install them? I've seen a few items here and there, but nothing made me comfortable. Ideally, I'd love to …

JSP on a Mac? JSPforMacs.com. That's all she wrote.

PHP (and MySQL) can be installed very easily: http://homepage.mac.com/LightyearDes...cOSX/Packages/ -Scott