I am thinking this might need to go to the Getting Started list, but I have some Linux issues that to me seem just bizarre.
I set out to write some utilities for things that are getting to be a bother for me: Moving thousands and thousands of CAD (just run of the mill binary files 45k-1MB usually) files from one machine/server/directory to another using a GUI is painful for this, so slow and aweful, now I do it by terminal. Retyping (Mac) and re-suffixing these same files. Sometimes monkeying with the binary in each one in predictable ways I know the point at which to read, change and insert so that¹s not the issue just the repetition. Other internal operations on the binaries. So I was thinking its about time to write a nice little utility app to do these things and be extensible by using RB Script. That way I can have a utility that loads scripts I can write that do my bidding and just run em. The bizarre things I find with Linux so far: My For/Next statements on directory folder items are 1 based !!!??? Unless I #if the fors to start at 1, the Linux apps Nil obj on me. The buttons look like doo doo. I know I read recently about some general way of #ifing that very thing but I cant find it. Is there a place to read up on Linux dev using RB? I sure would like a nod in the right direction here. I cant believe anyone could pick up RB and dev Linux apps from ant other OS. Is it just that I know nothing about Linux and one must go learn all the Linux nuances on his own before attempting this? It sure seems like the LR or UG should have some links, pointers or other heads ups about such odd things. You know I dig RB, but this is fairly undocumented ground AFAIC...anyone!? Thx, -seanA _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> Search the archives of this list here: <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html>
