Re: Mac and Xy

Sometimes it *is* all about apps... or at least drivers. The OpticBook book scanner does not offer any driver other than one for Windows, and is secretive too, so not even Vuescan can provide an alternative. ...and there is no alternative production on the market. Grrrr.
I'm with Kari in loving command lines. I even like, if not love, batch files. For some reason I have never been able to switch from the "DOS prompt" and batch files to OS X / BSD / Linux's "terminal". Maybe it is because Macs are *so* mousy-clicky that I have never worked my way up the learning curve. But the "standard" Linux sort of command line is certainly there, and "only a click away!"
Needless to say, there is no Mac program that is anything like XyWrite in its use of an internal command line. There *could* be, of course, by XyWriters seem to be the only people whose brains-and-fingers work that way. Hey, I'm even in that tiny category of people who love IBM's little "trackpoint" in the middle of the keyboard. 

Myron

On 10-Aug-09, at 5:46 AM, Kari Eveli wrote:
Just a thought: it is all about the apps. If there is a Mac application you need and want desperately, buy a Mac (and that overpriced Adobe or other quality piece of software), otherwise why bother... Mac lovers used to be command-prompt haters. I love my command line: DOS and Xy have one as well as every version of Windows I use (W2K has a freeware Tray Command Line, Win 3.11 has Praxim). I gather that Macs now have a Unix-like command line, too, but I would not buy one for that reason. Linux machines have that feature and the software is free. 

Best regards,

Kari Eveli
LEXITEC Book Publishing (Finland)
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