On Monday, July 15, 2002, at 07:36 , Randal L. Schwartz wrote: [..] > Oooh. S3kr3t Mag1c instructions! Where is this documented? > > That's part of what frustrates me the most about OSX. It's like > OS9... people pass around folklore instead of being able to just say > "man foo" as on "real unix" to read the whole story. [..]
you need to have friends who will keep you abreast of where the majik hides: http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2002/03/26/terminal_four.html bob sent me that as the 'clue fairy' since we have been working on the question of how to play in this space - as well as whether there will be an alternative to the cultural myopia of Perl/Tk that will be sub-classed appropriately to talk natively to the Aqua interface... The irony was that I had the 'coffee break moment' that these *.term files were merely XML 'plists' - and hence that one could build an XML_parser/configer that would generate them.... Or simply adopt the 'template' solution of setting the 'EXECUTE_ME' target and the perl equivolent of the sed for sed 's/EXECUTE_ME/'${CMD}'/' $template_file > $new_file as we did in the dark days of /bin/sh scripting.... ciao drieux ---
