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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
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