OSX has the ability (inherited from NextStep I think) to treat whole
directories as applications, so you can click the directory icon and have
its application start. E.g. in the Applications folder I see Safari in
Finder, but if I open a terminal and cd there I see a directory called
Safari.app, containing an application structure. I thought this was only a
gui thing, but maybe there is some deeper connection with resources and
stuff even to simple executables like the chuck program. I find this
unlikely though - especially since the chuck executable does not have this
kind of .app structure.
Stefan
2009/6/28 Kassen
gary;
Finally got it to work
I deleted the chuck file out of /usr/bin
Unpacked the chuck installer package, copied it to my applications.
Odd, it seems that /usr/bin/ plays a bit of a different role on OSX than it does in Linux. I started to suspect that already a few days ago when a friend let me poke around on her MacBook and I noticed dirs like that were completely invisible from the graphical shell.
I made a mental note of this as I think I naïvely recommended to a few people that they just copy chuck to /usr/bin/ on their Mac, I better stop doing that. I would think that there must be a better better way of notifying the user of the issue than simply ignoring the command even if I can see the reasoning for demanding things like chuck be in a aplication folder (on Linux one does need to make a mental note of what one dumped into /usr/bin/ when one manually installs things there).
At any rate, it's good that things work now.
Kas.
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