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Hya, I have a small CLI app that I have written for my work. Is it possible using Apple's Developer Tools to make it launch and operate within a single Finder window? If so could somebody point me in the direction of some instructions. Thanks in advance will

Hi, Does anyone know how to access the menus in the version of GNU Emacs that ships with OS X? Can't seem to get it to work. Ta, Will

Does anyone know of any efforts to create a complete Darwin distro - something similar to the distros you get for Linux? All I can find is the base system on its own. Ta for the info will

Hya, when I use a window manager other than Aqua-wm in Apples X11 all the windows that I invoke appear with their title bar under the Menubar on my desktop. Is there any way around this problem? Cheers, will

Hia, anyone know of a way of showing/hiding the menubar in the Finder? Back in the Classic Mac OS days there was a small freeware app that did this. Cheers will

Hi, curiosity is getting the better of me. I have a dialup internet connection and a firewall up and running. At present I get around 5 alerts per minute telling me that a remote host is portscanning me. I try to determine the host name using a little freeware app called IP Convert but it has...

Hi all, I have a Lombard Powerbook and iMac DV. Recently I have been neglecting the iMac and I need a way of keeping both systems up to date. Would it be possible via ethernet to clone my system from the Powerbook to the iMac? Once I have done this I would like to be able to update modified...

Hi, I have a couple of c++ questions that I can't find the answer to. First of, if I use the code below to open a user defined text file, how do I prevent the user from overwriting an existing file? char filename[50]; cout <<"Enter a file name for output: "; cin >> filename; cout << endl...

Hi, I can't access the man pages for the CLI apps installed by mac OS X (i.e. man pages for apps I have installed are fine). For instance I can get a man page for Pine but not for ls. I must have mucked things up with my manpath entry in the .tcshrc file but I don't know how to fix it. Here is...

Just wondering if anyone knows how to start my modem from the command line? I have a Powerbook G3 (Lombard). Any ideas? - I've done searches on the internet and posted to this forum ages ago but nobody seems to know. Cheers willmac

Just wondering if anyone has managed to get Apple's X11 to work in rooted mode. I have the Fluxbox Window Manager installed instead of Quartz-wm. I would like to be able to drop out of Aqua (by typing >console at the login screen), login and launch X11 from the command line. When I try this...

Apple's X11 comes with a very good default window manager but I decided to try some other options. My chief reason for this was the lack of multiple desktop support, which is default in all other X11 window managers that I have used. I decided to install Fluxbox, which is a lightweight window...

Apple's X11 comes with a very good default window manager but I decided to try some other options. My chief reason for this was the lack of multiple desktop support, which is default in all other X11 window managers that I have used. I decided to install Fluxbox, which is a lightweight window...

I was wondering if someone could help me out? I am a programming newby and wrote this small app. I would like to add some file io code to do the following - on launch invoke the user to name an output file and then for the app to write the output to that file as well as the terminal window. The...

This is really wierd. I recently bought a second hand Powerbook G3 (Lombard) and installed Mac OS 10.2.5 plus all my apps etc. Everything was going fine until the following occurred. I finished surfing the net in Safari and quit. When I was back in the Finder I noticed that my desktop picture...