Bruce writes, <May be known to some of you, but I just found the OMYGAWDTHIS IS SO DREAMY COOL!!!!11!!! app I've found in a long time.
Called Platypus, it's a program that will let you make an instant OS X application out of any interpreted script: shell scripts, perl programs, etc <http://www.sveinbjorn.org/platypus> > YES! PLATYPUS ROCKS! My boyfriend showed me this when he decided we had to write a couple of "Sims download processing" applications about a year ago (oh yeah, Valentine's weekend last year). He said we were just going to sit down and do this (quite probably because he was tired of hearing me complain about how tedious this could get). He said he needed me, since I'm the actual Sims player (he doesn't play himself), to tell him what they had to be able to do/how the game sees particular kinds of files, and he, the Unix man, would write the bash scripts -- so that's what we did. After we got it working and repeatedly tested, he took us to the Platypus website, where we made really nice packages for them: MacSimSorter and MacSkinSorter (and I bookmarked the site!). Then he said, "Release them into the wild," which I did at one of my Sims forums and recently I got an owner of a Sims downloads site to host them also. Those two little applications (in my Dock at all times!) have since spared me and quite a number of Mac Sims 1 players a LOT of time consuming tedium! I don't know why it didn't occur to me to mention Platypus back then, but seeing you mention it now, I had to agree it was wonderful. ~Yersinia. ________ "Just when you start to accept that Life's a bitch, she has puppies." --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
