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  1. voice-

    How to close the Terminal window after a while using AppleScript?

    I'm writing a newbie AppleScript ping application, the intention is to check internet connection with only one click. So far, the code looks like this: tell application "Terminal" do script "ping -c 10 www.vg.no" end tell As you've probably guessed, this opens Terminal and pings vg.no 10...
  2. ex2bot

    Terminal has lost its mind

    I have a problem with my terminal configuration: I was running one of those ffmpeg front-ends. It messed up my terminal, and now whenever I open a new terminal, the startup script attempts to run ffmpeg. In addition, my path is screwed up, and /bin and /sbin are not in the path so common...
  3. nb3004

    firewire drive only shows up in the terminal and disk utility

    A friend of mine has a firewire drive that he uses on his PC at home however at school on our 1.42 G4's the drive doesnt show up on the desktop. It will open in the terminal through volumes and is present in disk utility, anyone else experience this or have any ideas on this problem. thanks
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    How to get multiple terminal windows in X11?

    I am slowly learning how to run/use applications through fink and x11 but there is something I've ran into that I can't figure out.. When I start Apple's X11 (I type startx in the terminal), it opens up another white terminal window in X, where I can bring up apps I've installed like...
  5. I

    Can I get realtime output of another users terminal?

    Been playing around with remote login on my mac using putty on my windows computer. Tried doing the talk command between ttyp1 and ttyp2, but connection/invitation would never get made.. Wanted to be able to see if I could view another terminals output/input in an almost realtime fashion? I...
  6. loom001

    Saving New Terminal Colors as default?

    After you change in the Terminals background and Text to a different color is there away to set those new colors as default? Thanks in advance!
  7. pwharff

    Read Mail in Terminal?

    Does anyone know how to read mail from the Mail app in Terminal?
  8. michaelsanford

    Panther /w MySQL 4 : Improved terminal unicode support?

    I'm speechless at this fucntionality :D (the value for the INSERT was pasted into the terminal window, and automatically converted to escapes!) Was this introduced in MySQL 4 / Panther, because I don't remember this working in Jaguar with MySQL 3.23 Mind you this unicode functionality...
  9. K

    help with terminal launch script

    Every time I lauch Termainal, it does the following... Last login: Wed Nov 5 22:47:53 on ttyp1 Welcome to Darwin! Dual500:~ kon$ cd "/Users/kon/Music/Vault/" Dual500:~/Music/Vault kon$ Can anyone tell me where this line is coming from? In 10.2 it would have been in the .tcsh file...
  10. A

    General Terminal Confusion

    First off I just got the hang of using fink and the terminal a little bit after much confusion and I have to say - It Rules! Apple are geniuses for putting such an awesome UI on UNIX. Fink are geniuses for getting all the porgrams to work automatically and play nice. But I have some general...
  11. G

    New Terminal "feature"

    With the Panther upgrade, something has changed with Terminal.app. When I display a file using more, less, man, or similar utils, the displayed text disappears when the program ends (e.g. pressing 'q' in man). I've seen this in linux terminals and it's always bugged the hell out of me, and now...
  12. S

    Volumes in the Terminal in 10.3

    Hello All- Back in the old days (last week with 10.2) when I would do a Cmd-K to connect to server and supply the name and password I would get a volume mounted on my desktop. Then if I was to go to the terminal and do a cd /Volumes/Macintosh\ HD I was into the remote volume and able to...
  13. cfleck

    terminal forward delete

    is there a way to map the forward delete key to actually delete in the terminal? i'm talking about the smaller delete key here. i believe ctrl+d does the action i'm refering to. can i make (small) delete do that?
  14. F

    bochs messed up my terminal, help

    I downloaded bochs2.0.2 from the link provided by apple.com and soon realized I was in a bit over my head and deleted it. when installed all new terminal windows would run bochs, now they just get this error because its not there anymore I cant find what is making this happen. my .tcshrc...
  15. C

    pppd from the command line (Terminal)

    Hi, I am trying to get connected to my ISP through pppd from within a shell script, but have not been successful so far. Does anybody know how I could achieve that goal? All I want is a shell script that would call pppd with my account name and password, my ISP phone number and...
  16. R

    Modifying code in Terminal

    I am not sure if this is really the forum to be asking this. I am not using the Mac on UNIX. I want to know if I can use Terminal to change something pertaining to using OSX with a second language (Japanese). When you use a second language on the Mac there is an input menu that appears in the...
  17. F

    Terminal Application

    I really hope this is possible? I'm the lone Mac user at my office and I'm trying to figure out a way to connect to our EDI system. As far as I can tell all the clients that connect are using WIN 98 & 2000. I'm pretty sure the EDI server is running SCO Unix (although the client interface looks...
  18. 3mors

    LS command on terminal

    I've tried to change my tcsh config on 7B44 in order to use ll and l command in place of ls -l and ls -al, but it doesn't work. I've followed the readme that's in this folder: /usr/share/tcsh/examples/ but it doesn't seem to work (I've followed the system-wide method). And I've also...
  19. pwharff

    How do I verify how many CPU's I have in the Terminal???

    How do I verify how many CPU's I have within the Terminal??? Actually I am at work on a Linux machine and need to verify if my Linux (SuSE) installation is recognizing both of my CPU's. If I could work with Macs I would, but I can't, but I need to do this because I am a QA tester for AMD. Any...
  20. Ripcord

    Terminal not working

    Hey guys, Just bought a brandy new 1.25ghz G4, and just getting things set up. However, ran into a weird quirk. For some reason, at some point my Terminal.app started going wacko. When I tried to open a new shell, it would just open the process and then terminate. I had set it to...
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