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Unix->Mac transition [message #20712] Tue, 18 July 2000 00:00 Go to next message
Ben Tupper is currently offline  Ben Tupper
Messages: 186
Registered: August 1999
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Hello,

We are transferring some IDL work from a UNIX (IDL5.2, SunOS Release 5.7
Generic) to a Mac (IDL5.3, MacOS 9). I had cleverly thought that I
could simply ftp the bazillion .pro files from one to the other and
away-we-go! Hope springs eternal and fools are born each day. The
Mac IDLDE is not recognizing the .pro files. We have set the file type
to IDL text (just as the RSI example code is set) using the Mac's file
exchange control panel. No luck. The OS seems to be insisting that
the .pro text files are actually 'applications'. I'm beginning to
suspect that the UNIX flavor of text must be changed in some way to fool
the Mac.

Any suggestions welcome. Thanks.

Ben

P.S. For what it's worth, the last Mac (a Mac PLUS) I spent time with
had 4kb of memory, ran OS 6.01, had a mouse that looked like one, and
didn't look so much like a tropical fish. Oh ,Toto, I don't think we
are in Kansas anymore!



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Ben Tupper

Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Science
tupper@seadas.bigelow.org

pemaquidriver@tidewater.net
Re: Unix->Mac transition [message #20764 is a reply to message #20712] Wed, 19 July 2000 00:00 Go to previous message
Kenneth P. Bowman is currently offline  Kenneth P. Bowman
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Registered: May 2000
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In article <8l4j3s$ph$1@news.lth.se>, Struan Gray
<struan.gray@sljus.lu.se> wrote:

> One solution to the 'which way is up' problem is to pop the side
> panels off the mouse. Or buy a better one elsewhere.

One suggestion I heard was to buy some self-adhesive velcro strips, cut
a piece to the right shape to give some tactile feedback, and stick it
(fuzzy half only) somewhere on the mouse.

Ken
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