You didn't ask me, did you? (or Scott, or Robert) I was using a Mac to access Unix command lines on a project in 1987. In 1992 I used a Mac command line product (Programmers Workbench?) to issue commands concurrently in MacOS (pre-X), Unix, and Windows. In 1995, I installed a Unix(r) command line interface in MacOS 8. I had been waiting for a CLI on the Mac for years, and finally had one with Mach Ten (the company was assimilated when OSX came out).
Yes, I know you don't need a CLI, but I like having one and the things I can do with it. I also appreciate the Commando interface used in Workbench and AUX, which expands the CLI into a dialog box when a hot key is pressed. Would be nice if the NeXT crew had seen that when they came aboard. --Don Ellis On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 5:13 PM, Scott Granneman <[email protected]> wrote: > You don’t NEED to use a command line with a Mac. But it’s there if you > want it. > > I have one open 100% of the time I’m using my Mac. But I’m unusual. > > I don’t see what’s so astonishing about your experience. > > Scott > -- > R. Scott Granneman > [email protected] ~ www.granneman.com ~ granneman.tel > Full list of publications @ http://www.granneman.com/publications > My latest book: Mac OS X for Power Users @ > http://www.granneman.com/books > > “All great truths begin as blasphemies.” > ---George Bernard Shaw > > On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 4:10 PM, Robert Citek <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Methinks, you're asking the wrong people. ;) > > > > Might want to ask one of the three guys in the front row at this Rails > > conference: > > > > http://cdn.harmonyapp.com/assets/518d24647a507234e000157b/sponsors.jpg > > > > Regards, > > - Robert > > > > On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 5:05 PM, Mike B. <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Today, after more than a year asking random people with Macs, I came > across > >> someone who not only knows what the command line is, but uses it. > >> > >> I have asked well over one hundred people over the past year. Not one > until > >> now had any idea they had a terminal program, let alone how to open it. > >> Wow. Just wow. > >> > >> > >> Of course, this guy programs web sites. > >> > >> > ... > -- -- Central West End Linux Users Group (via Google Groups) Main page: http://www.cwelug.org To post: [email protected] To subscribe: [email protected] To unsubscribe: [email protected] More options: http://groups.google.com/group/cwelug --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Central West End Linux Users Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
