On Tuesday, August 26, 2003, at 03:58 PM, Dar Scott wrote:
I downloaded the Darwin engine and I can do this:
./mc helloworld.txt
In this form, the text file does not seem to need #!.
Sounds correct
This engine seems bloated; it is well over 2MB. X11?
I just grabbed the darwin mc from metacard.com. I ran "strip" on it, and filesize is still 2.7 MB. Must have been already stripped so that doesn't help. According to "otool -L", it links with only one shared library, libSystem. Also ran "strings < mc | grep -i lib" to see what kind of stuff it was compiled with.
Educated guess: it is statically linked with Xlib (X11), zlib, libpng, libjpeg and maybe others. Therefore the size. This seems rather a waste since the OS X version need not link with X11.
By comparison it's not that bad. The Revolution OS X engine is 3.5 MB and doesn't even have X11 libs in it. It strips down to only 3.1 MB.
I seem to have forgotten most of what I know of unix from a quarter century ago.
I don't need cgi (yet). I just want to do some command-line work. Does this file (mc) go into /etc/bin or some other directory? What permissions and ownership should it have.
If the command ./mc helloworld.txt worked, then it's already executable.
sudo cp mc /usr/local/bin or sudo cp mc /usr/bin
To put it onto (probably) your path. Then create a text file with
#!/your/path/to/mc e.g. #!/usr/bin/mc
as the first line. Make the text file executable. Then you can run it just as ./myScript or ./myScript.sh or whatever
I'm currently editing with TextEdit. I am not able to type the text file name to the terminal just as I would a program. I get a permissions error. Do I need to make it executable? TextEdit does not make files executable. The "get info" does not have an execute option on permissions. Do I need to go in and chmod each file? Maybe I need to make an editor with Revolution.
That's unfortunate about the Finder not exposing the execute permissions. I know there are 3rd party software that can do it from a GUI, or just use chmod from the command line that's what I do.
I suspect I'm missing the obvious.
No I don't think so
Even though I'm an old school lisp guy, I don't emacs and I had a hypnotist purge all knowledge of vi years ago. I think I did; I don't remember vi, anyway.
Better learn Emacs then ;-) I distribute an binary, self contained app bundle of Emacs for OS X:
http://mindlube.com/products/emacs/
A non-GUI Emacs is also built OS X- which is nice for editing files as root from terminal.app
Alex Rice, Software Developer Architectural Research Consultants, Inc. http://ARCplanning.com
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