In article <1081-rush decimal general at seriss decimal com>,
jance <powerjance@(email surpressed)> wrote:
> In article <1080-rush decimal general at seriss decimal com>,
> Greg Ercolano <erco@(email surpressed)> wrote:
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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.
>
> Thanks for the info, guys. Dennis is going to get on the phone with
> NewTek and see what's up. If we learn anything, we'll let you know!
>
> - Jance
Well, NewTek support was of no use. But we did figure out that you can
go to an os x terminal and type this: open "lwsn cmdline" and it seems
to run lwsn. We just need to figure out how to incorporate that
correctly so the pc's keep working and the macs start working.
Any ideas?
- Jance
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