R-sig-Geo Digest, Vol 88, Issue 23
2010/12/23 Ralf Sch?fer <senator at ecotoxicology.de>:
BTW: "Linux Techies" ?should have no major probs with Mac, given that the Mac system commands are more or less the same as for Linux systems
Yes, but try asking an average Mac user how to get a command line. Here's the dialog: Can I get a command line? A what? A terminal emulator. A what? A thing where you type stuff. Like Word? No, a command line interpreter. A what? A shell. A what? Like a DOS command box. A what? Is it called 'MacTerm'? Dunno. Or "Terminal"? *shrug* Eventually you trawl through a dozen wobbly-iconned shine-fests, into the dusty, unexplored regions of the Mac UI until you do actually find it. Of course even then files are in different places, the terminology is different (what is a 'Framework'? what is 'Xcode'? Do I really have to sign up and pay to get a C compiler?). Barry