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.<div>
<br></div><div>Stefan</div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/6/28 Kassen <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:signal.automatique@gmail.com">signal.automatique@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<br><div class="gmail_quote"> gary;<div class="im"><br><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left:1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex"><div>Finally got it to work</div><div><br>
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I deleted the chuck file out of /usr/bin</div><div><br></div><div>Unpacked the chuck installer package, copied it to my applications.</div></blockquote></div><div><br>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.<br>

<br>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).<br>

<br>At any rate, it&#39;s good that things work now.<br><br>Kas.<br></div></div><br>
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