Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!apple!apple.com!chewy From: chewy@apple.com (Paul Snively) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer Subject: Re: Programming on the MAC Message-ID: <5798@internal.Apple.COM> Date: 15 Dec 89 17:04:38 GMT References: Sender: usenet@Apple.COM Organization: Apple Computer, Inc. Lines: 37 In article emuleomo@paul.rutgers.edu (Emuleomo) writes: > I need tools like > > a) frep/grep/egrep > b) vi (or a good text-editor) > c) sh (or csh or ksh) work-alike > d) rm,ls,mkdir etc... > > Is there any hope that I might find these tools anywhere?? > (I don't mind paying a reasonable fee for a commercial product > like the MKS toolkit available for PCs) > > Also is it possible to get rid of the Mouse interface on the mac > and use a unix like shell? Yes. You want the Macintosh Programmer's Workshop (MPW), which is available from APDA. It's very slow, but very powerful. In article emuleomo@paul.rutgers.edu (Emuleomo) writes: > And what does the extension hqx mean? I saw that when I ftp'd over > to sumex.stanford.edu. What do I do with hqx files. These are binary files that have been encoded with a BinHex utility; you need to decode them either with the BinHex application or with some other utility that can decode BinHex files, such as StuffIt. Hope this helps! __________________________________________________________________________ Just because I work for Apple Computer, Inc. doesn't mean that they believe what I believe or vice-versa. __________________________________________________________________________ C++ -- The language in which only friends can access your private members. __________________________________________________________________________