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Re: Running AppleCommander GUI?



Steven Hirsch wrote:
On 05/26/2011 12:35 PM, schmidtd wrote:

There's a reason Rob bundled AppleCommander into an executable on
Windows and an app on Mac.


That's obviously a sound approach under the circumstances.

And there's a reason why I hide the Java
command line of ADTPro behind a script for Unix-alikes.  It's
complicated.


Why on earth does it need to BE so complex? I cannot think of any other language runtime environment that's even in the same order-of-magnitude. And, for the record, I had no idea that I could run AC from ADTPro. I thought it was intended for interchange of data with an A2 over serial link, not a general file-manipulation tool. Since I use Appletalk for data transfer, I've never had a need for ADT and thus have never laid eyes on it in action.

Welcome to "write once, run everywhere."

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components has all the moving parts needed to create a
versioning hell.

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