--- In [email protected], "uns_tressor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], Vaj <vajranatha@> wrote: > > On Dec 17, 2006, at 5:24 PM, sparaig wrote: > > > --- In [email protected], "Patrick Gillam" > > > <jpgillam@> wrote: > > >> --- uns_tressor wrote: > > >>> --- TurquoiseB wrote: > > >>>>> What this ^ tells me is, Windows isn't as elegant as > > >>>>> Mac OS X, so it takes far longer to execute an idea. > > >>>> > > >>>> Actually, that is *exactly* what you should infer. > > >>>> Mac OSX was built on top of an already-functional, > > >>>> already-elegant framework.... > > >>> > > >>> ...which is otherwise known as Unix, I think. If you > > >>> ramble around the menus, you will find something called > > >>> "console" or maybe "terminal". Click it if you dare. > > >> > > >> "Console" in the Utilities folder in Applications. What is it? > > >> > > > > > > It's the commandline Mac GUI interface to the UNIX shell. > > > Careful, you're playing with fire if > > > you use it. An administrator account + command line = god on UNIX. > > > > No, I think you meant to say "Terminal". The "Console" is just > >your system feedback window. > > > Either way, does this not show that OSX is a tarty interface > siting on top of Unix? Nothing wrong with that. It is just that > this is what it is. > Uns. >
As an aside, I didn't realize the difference between Console and Terminal until last night. I've been trying to get the baby Maya 3D plug-ins to work, and why the durned thing would run without errors it would never print my message. Turns out it WAS printing a message, to the non-existent Console window (there's more to it then that, but looking at the Console window output gave me the clue as to what was wrong). After several weeks of hair-pulling and numerous bits of technical advice online from technical leads at Disney and other places, a stray remark on THIS forum solved my problem. I can now write C++-based plug-ins to the Maya 3D applications! Now, if I can just come up with a marketable idea that *I* can implement....
