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Does any one know how to get proper ANSI display in the terminal. Even basic ANSI would be fine. What I am talking about - is for example when a script uses the 'dialog' command. I am sure everyone has seen this command in use at some point. Its the command that will draw a pseudo dialog box...

I have successfully installed X11, OOo and MacGimp (using the binary installers) but MacGimp didn't go down without a fight. now my terminal opens up with the message: Welcome to Darwin! /usr/share/init/tcsh/rc: No such file or directory. > Is this a problem? How do i fix it? Also, I...

Hi! This is propably going to sound very stupid to all you Unix-gurus, but... When I start Terminal, it tries to automatically connect to my email account using ssh. It says following: ssh -c 3des -2 -l myusername address -p 22 I have used a quick control-c to abort the...

Hi! I'm trying to rename alot of file-extentions from the terminal with >mv *.* *.mp3 But I seem to be missing something. I dont want to do it manualy cause there are allot of files... also the file renaming programs dont mannage the long filenames propperly (you get a strange name but no...

Hi ! I'm student and i'm going to use C next year and i would like to use "CC C_source.c" but the unix shell tell me : cc: Command not found. :mad: How can i fix this ?

Just incase you run into the same problem I did, in that apropos results in: apropos: no whatis databases in /usr/share/man /usr/local/mysql/man You can use the catman command to create a whatis database :-) Ohh, you have to sudo catman. And then wait, and wait, and wait. To bad the error...

I have Tinkertool properly installed, but this is what I get. [View attachment]

Hi, It's my first time using the terminal command and I'm doing something wrong, but I can't for the life of me figure out what it is so I can stop it. I'm trying to install Daniel's HttpMail Plugin v1.12 so I can access hotmail via my .mac Mail account. I followed teh first step easily...

How do I launch an application from the terminal? Thanks for the help

Hi I would like to learn wich commands to type in the terminal to: Manually run Cron scripts. enable or disabel jounaling (Jounaling File System). repair file and folder permissions. create symbolic links. delete locked or unaccessible items. uppdate prebinding information. force empty trash...

i ssh to several servers to do a lot of my work and it would be nice if the color would come through on terminal.app the color for ls comes through, but not for vim and emacs. i get color for both if i ssh from my linux box. any ideas?

the problem is that I've changed my terminal default settings... it's pretty embarrassing to be novice sometimes. Nowhere in the osx terminal help guide did i come across a way to correct this. This is the screen content when i start a new shell...

Yes you may be wondering WHY, but its because I have a memory card that needs to be FAT32 for a MP3 player and Disk Utility won't format it correctly, so I'm resorting to Mac OS X's Unix underpinnings. I've found several utilities that may work (using the apropos command) but I don't know...

hi folks, another question: I want to change the startup-folder in osx using the terminal. how can I do that? thanks for all help, macosx.com I think is the greatest OS X Forum I now...

I seem to be having trouble with terminal apps. When i try and run them I always get "Permission Denied" - unles they are the core apps like netstat. Anything, like ffmpeg and such, give an error. How would I change this?

I don't know if it's a feature or a bug, either way it's an annoyance. Whenever I type o/ in the Terminal it changes it to ø. This is NOT what I want.; I can't type URL's that work because of this. I don't know how long it's done this but I only noticed it yesterday when I tried to Curl a file...

I still haven't figured out any good uses for that split window thing. Anyone using it? If so, for what?

I am trying to install myobdc .dylib drivers into /usr/local/lib. The instructions say to put them in this directory. My question is this: 1. How do I open this dir? 2. Do I just drag the file onto the terminal window? This is a very beginner's question, but I cannot find any...

I've got a shell script that runs fine if I drop it onto a terminal window, it also runs if I tell Cronnix to "Run Now", but doesn't run at all when I tell CronniX to run it at a set time. I imagine that it's because Terminal and the Run Now command in CronniX use tcsh and cron doesn't... Anyone...

I've got an alias that backs up my web design folder (scripts and stuff) to my little USB stick. This is the line from .cshrc alias vault 'cp -r /Library/WebServer/Documents/design /Volumes/VAULT/ &' When I run it from the command line I get the answer [gwailo:~]% vault [1] 937 I...