>Beta Zero <beta_zero@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:
>> Is it possible to add commands to Darwin?
Sherman Pendley wrote:
>If you're talking about running Terminal.app and entering commands
>into a command prompt, then yes! The key thing to realize is that,
>when you enter a command like "ls", the command shell usually doesn't
>call an internal function called ls(). Instead, it looks on your
>drive, in a series of locations that you can define, for an executable
>file named "ls", and if one is found it runs it.
Aha! That explains a lot!
>You can write these "commands" - more commonly called tools - in
>pretty much any language you can think of. C, Objective-C, C++, shell
>scripting, Perl, Ruby, Python, Java, etc. - and that's just what's
>included with the OS. There's far more out there for the downloading.
>One reason why geeky types often prefer a Unix variant is the huge
>array of programming tools and languages that are available for it.
>
>sherm--
Thanks, that was very helpful! It explains a lot.
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