Björnke, Thanks for the information. I run Macs at home. Exclusively.
Larry 2010/2/1 Björnke von Gierke <[email protected]>: > Hi Larry > > You complain about the lack of a command line app. However I know this is > available, to anyone who ever bought rev. However, it was removed with 4.0, > so it's only available in the versions of 3.5 and less. Currently that is not > that big of a problem, as most of the 4.0 changes that weren't engine ports > (php-like webserver and browser-plugin) where for gui stuff. One notable > exception is the very very very old external for sqlite, but you can use the > updated one from 4.0. > > If you only joined after 4.0 was released, and can't find the 3.5 versions, > just mail support for a download link. So Here is a nice step by step guide > on how you can run command line stuff on mac os (yeah i know, but that's what > i'm at now, and where i can test): > > 1. go to application/revolution enterprise/3.5.0-gm-2/runtime/mac os > x/universal/ > > 2. right click (or control-click) the "standalone" application and choose > "show package content" > > 3. go to contents/MacOS/ > > 4. copy the "standalone" unix executable to a more convenient place like / > (directly into macintosh hd) > > 5. create a text file at the same place (i named it "cgi.txt"): > > --file contents start below this line-- > #!/Standalone -ui > > on startup > put "hello world" > quit > end startup > --end of file contents above this line-- > > 7. go to terminal and enter: > chmod 777 /cgi.txt > > 8. run the newly created command line text by entering the following into > terminal: > /cgi.txt > > result: "hello world" appears in the terminal (sans quotes) > > I know that not all these file paths, commands or strings are the same for > windows (or linux), but guessing from your mail, you are more knowledgeable > about how these things should work on windows and linux then this poor mac > addicted loser. ;-) > > Have fun > Björnke > > > On 1 Feb 2010, at 17:35, Larry Snider wrote: > >> !!(In fact, I would, more importantly, like the ability to compile >> command-line programs! I could very easily write CGI tools for the >> web that would not require ANY plug-in. Sorry. I'm not a fan of >> special GUI web programming.)!! > > > > -- > > official ChatRev page: > http://bjoernke.com?target=chatrev > > Chat with other RunRev developers: > go stack URL "http://bjoernke.com/chatrev/chatrev1.3b3.rev"; > > _______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > [email protected] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution > _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
