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right out of man open pages!

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Originally posted by vonleigh
Just in case: that would be terminal apps, not Aqua/MacOS apps. As in: you can run "lsof", but not say "Photoshop" or "TextEdit".

But *why* not? It's nice to be able to type "graphi" then tab in the terminal so that your shell completes the output to "graphicconverter", and then hit return to open GraphicConverter. Similarly nice to be able to enter --say--

% neti<tab>m<tab>

and have it completed to netinfomanager, then have it open upon return. See an old and very rambling thread for a script to do just this if you're interested. Most of my scriptural diarrhoea at the start can be safely ignored unless you're looking to kill some time in a semi-interesting manner! Just use the second version of the long script, and substitute the two lines from the last post on the first page of that thread (so that "Disk Copy.app" becomes "diskcopy" and so forth).

http://forums.macosxhints.com/showth...ghlight=davros

As above, if you've already "passed" on that script then ignore this message!

Cheers,
Paul

Wow. Paul that's some post, I'm still trying to wrap my mind around it. Thanks in advance!

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Originally posted by baryonyx
I was just about to say money spent on a book is never wasted, but then I remembered that I bought Teach Yourself C in 21 Days several years ago and never read it.

Hey! I have that book. I actually did read it. I bought it while taking a class in C programming. The main reason I got it was that I bought the version that had a compiler, so that I could do homework at home and not at the college computer lab. It's actually a pretty helpful book (as far as those "teach yourself" books goes...).

Right now it serves me well too. I have a 19" and 17" monitor at work, and the book is just the right thickness to sit under the 17" monitor and make the top of it even with the 19".

:D

G.--

Mac OS X (pocket reference) & Learning UNIX for Mac OS X

Here are two books reviewed, for those interested.

>> Right now it serves me well too. I have a 19" and 17" monitor at work, and the book is just the right thickness to sit under the 17" monitor and make the top of it even with the 19".

So it is in fact true that money spent on books is never wasted!

Andy

I was new to UNIX. I got the book Sams teach yourself UNIX in 24 hours. It's been worth every penny spent. Easy lessons teach you how to do things that ordinary people want to do. for other stuff, i just search the net.

I have "learning Unix for Mac Os X" which I think is a waste of time if you know anything about Unix already. It takes a chapter to explain what a directory a file are. Its also small, so there's loads of interesting things mentioned, followed by "but we won't go into that in this small book". If you are very new to UNIX , this would be a great starting point though, as its nicely written.

I also have "Mac OS X unleashed" which is fantastic and has everything in.