Or you could use Cygwin and never worry about such trivialities :)
________________________________ From: Kevin Wright <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, July 15, 2011 10:52 AM Subject: Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Man in a Mac FWIW, If you want to see something that's "stuck", just look at the console in windows. Even the new-fangled power shell still runs in the same prehistoric window, and the hacks needed in tools like JLine to do anything sensible with it are simply mind-bending. And don't even get me started on the pain of copying/pasting at the console... On 15 July 2011 15:19, PhilDin <philb%[email protected]> wrote: 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. > > -- Kevin Wright gtalk / msn : [email protected] google+: http://gplus.to/thecoda mail: [email protected] vibe / skype: kev.lee.wright quora: http://www.quora.com/Kevin-Wright twitter: @thecoda "My point today is that, if we wish to count lines of code, we should not regard them as "lines produced" but as "lines spent": the current conventional wisdom is so foolish as to book that count on the wrong side of the ledger" ~ Dijkstra -- 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. -- 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.
