From: Greg Ercolano <erco@(email surpressed)>
Subject: Re: lwsn on osx
   Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 23:17:57 -0800
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Dylan Penhale wrote:
About 5 months ago when I tried this I gave up after a day as I couldn't run
the lwsn binary from the shell. It appears to only be able to run as a GUI..

	Right -- I do remember trying to help you with this, Dylan.

	When you tried invoking the LWSN executable from the command line,
	you got [paraphrasing your posting from April 2005]:

# cd '/Applications/LightWave [8]/programs'

# ./lwsn
./lwsn: cannot execute binary file

# ls -la
[..]
-rwxrwxrwx   1 root   admin   343461 21 Apr 16:44 LSid
-rwxrwxrwx   1 root   admin   599653 21 Apr 16:44 LWSN		<--
-rw-rw-rw-   1 root   admin        0 21 Apr 16:44 LWSN cmdLine
[..]

# file ./LWSN
./LWSN: header for PowerPC PEF executable

	So even though it was executable (rwx), it couldn't be invoked
	from the unix shell. (Macs aren't case sensitive, so ./lwsn == ./LWSN)
	
	FWIW, whenever a software vendor that already has a product working
	on OS9, or is new to OSX, they seem to take a few revs before they
	get their command line stuff working.

	It took a few revs of Maya on OSX before things work working smoothly.
	It wasn't until 6.0.1 that it was truly 'stable'.

Jance if you find anything diference please let us know ;)

	I think NewTek is still on version 8.x, and you and I tested
	with 8.2 I think it was. So my guess is this might still be
	an issue under OSX.

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