This rant seems awfully misplaced but I'm going to give the benefit of the doubt and assume it's not just trolling.
Firstly, there is nothing unix-y about not handling archives. I seem to remember my KDE 2.0 desktop could do this using the ioslaves framework and that was around 2001. I would be very surprised if Gnome didn't have similar functionality. If OSX can't handle the specific format provided by eclipse then you might raise this with Apple for not supporting the format or with the Eclipse foundation for picking an unsupported format (unless you're saying that no archive format is supported by OSX but this seems unlikely to be the case) but to somehow connect this to Unix makes no sense. From the sound of it, your problem is that you have just started using a completely new OS and you haven't yet figured out how it works and so, have run into problems. This is hardly surprising, an operating system is a big complex system and not everything will work the way you expect it to first time. If you run into a problem, your best bet is to clearly describe the problem that you encountered (what error messages did you get, how did the observed behaviour differed from the expected behaviour). Simply saying that it didn't work doesn't give anyone the possibilty to help you even if they are inclined. In your case, your request opened with an assertion that Unix based systems (including OSX) were somehow *stuck*. Most users of such systems are unlikely to agree and by making such an assertion, you will have alienated the segment of the community most capable of helping you (by definition, people who don't like and/or use OSX are unlikely to be able to help you with OSX related problems). In summary, you may have encountered a genuinely frustrating issue but your posting is unlikely to serve you. For what it's worth, I don't use OSX so I don't have any specific recommendation for you but O'Reilly books tend to be reasonably good so that's the first place that I would check. Phil On Jul 15, 8:53 am, "Vince O'Sullivan" <[email protected]> wrote: > This started out as a full page rant about the unintuitive Apple OS > and why we're still all - except MS - stuck with Unix this far into > the 21st century; but I've rewritten it and managed to boil it down to > the paragraph below... > > I bought my first Mac computer this week. Whist I have a limited (but > working) knowledge of Unix, downloading and unpacking Eclipse has been > a total fail (it refuses to "unarchive" to the desktop, as per the > installation instructions). Can anyone recommend a useful book or web > site that gives a good advanced introduction (sic) to iOS? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. 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/javaposse?hl=en.
