shell on OS X

[Mark Talluto]

On Sunday, May 5, 2002, at 02:10  PM, Richard MacLemale wrote:

>> How much closer are we to having put Shell() work in OSX?
>
> Scott may answer, but my guess would be "no closer." MetaCard for OS X 
> is a
> Carbon app, and from what I understand there's no way for Carbon apps 
> to be
> able to issue UNIX commands.  Cocoa apps can do this, but rewriting 
> MetaCard
> in Cocoa from the ground up would not be a lot of fun for MetaCard, and 
> from
> what I hear Cocoa isn't totally all there yet.
>
> But what about an external which could issue UNIX commmands and act as a
> "go-between" between Carbon and OS X?
>
> I'm with you... There are a MILLION different things I'd like to do with
> MetaCard for OS X, but I can't do them because MC for OS X doesn't allow
> shell commands.  I end up using mc (darwin), or AppleScript, and I'd 
> much
> rather use MetaCard (OS X version.)  There are a bunch of us who could 
> write
> some serious kick-ass apps if MC could do this.

I heard that we are moving over to a Mach-O build for the OS X version 
of MC on the next release.  So, we should be very close to having Shell 
support on X soon.

-Mark