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- From: amun@quads.uchicago.edu (james frederick amundson)
- Subject: MPW
- Message-ID: <1993Jan12.175233.12474@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 17:52:33 GMT
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- I have a problem. I don't want MPW. I have Think C and Alpha, which do
- everything I would want to do with MPW -- *except* run MPW tools. There
- are several ports of GNU utilities available only as MPW tools. I would
- love to be able to use these. I would also like to use DirectTeX, which
- exists only as a set of MPW tools.
-
- Here are my questions:
-
- 1. What would be the cheapest way for a student like myself to obtain
- just the MPW Shell? I would be satisfied if I could just send Apple
- Events to the MPW Shell from Alpha to use the various tools. (I should
- point out that I've only used old versions of the MPW Shell. Does the
- current version support Apple Events?)
-
- 2. Would it be feasible to write a program which runs MPW tools? I would
- think that there would be a wide audience for such a program. What
- exactly does the MPW shell provide for tools? Input/output and
- environment variables? Where is this documented?
-
- Thanks for any help.
-
-