Kow K wrote: []
As you'll notice, it has an icon in Finder view. All that means is that it has resource folk, doesn't it?No. I am not an expert on this, but there is a difference between Mac OS9 and OSX. On OS9, icons and other gui items belonging to an application were stored in resource forks. On OSX, this still works (as long as the thing is installed on an HFS+ formatted partition). But there is also the new system, the application bundles, originally introduced (?) by NextStep which was running on a file system without resource forks.
In application bundles, and /sw/Applications/Aquaterm.app is one of them, all the gui items are stored in ordinary files, the Aquaterm icons for example in /sw/Applications/AquaTerm.app/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/AquaTerm.icns
This does not exclude, and hence my question, that some binaries contained in application bundles may additionally have resource forks. I don't believe Aquaterm.app has any, though.
I guess AquaTerm is needed because Gnuplot depends on it. Gnuplot comes with a demo, and it requires AquaTerm to run.Yes, of course, aquaterm is used by gnuplot which uses it for its output if you say 'set term aqua'. IMHO, and this is why I called it "weird", there is not a good reason to provide aquaterm as a binary-only package. It could very well be built from source by fink like any other package. But I digress, this is an old discussion and I don't want to reopen it.
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Martin
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