On 2016-05-19 06:15:18 +0000, Griff said:
> On 2016-05-18 17:10:08 -0800, "gxs" <bikini@oll.boom> said:
>
>>
>> On 19-May-2016, sns <sns@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>>> thanks for these. MacPAR delux is a new version I had not found
>>> Ive DL's it and will take a lookl
>>> Ill also look into JBinUP
>>> many thanks.
>>>
>>> sns
>>
>> Sorry to hear about these issues!
>> Way back when I used to use a lot of *nix OS' and if there was a Win app
>> that I couldn't live without then WINE <https://www.winehq.org/> was my go
>> to app to get them running on *nix.
>>
>> If you find you can't do what's needed with what's available for OSX you
>> might try looking at the plethora of Win apps available and launching them
>> through WINE.
>>
>> As there's a lot of difference these days between OSX and *nix, some kind
>> folks have ported 3rd party variants of WINE specifically for OSX
>> <https://wiki.winehq.org/MacOSX> which could be a better option but I'm
>> unable to test if this is so, a quick read of the various application forums
>> would yield light there.
>>
>> Note that WINE is NOT an emulator so there's no slowdown or anything, it's a
>> really great tool!
>>
>> g.
CrossOver is a Mac version with a decent interface. And right now on
sale for $20.
>
> MacPAR deLuxe is what I've used to "unpack" (and recover broken)
> downloads for over a decade. I'm still running an older version but my
> wife has DL'ed the latest and seems satisfied with it. (She's running
> a recent version of OSX and usually upgrades OS & apps when the latest
> version seems to be stable.)
I've actually been running beta versions of OS X and this stuff just
keeps working
>
> BTW - OSX is Unix at it's core but you have to go "under the covers" to
> get direct access to the Unix functions. (Using Unix directly has
> always given me headaches so I only go there when I have to.)
>
> Griff
Actually the OS came from NeXt when Jobs returned to Apple after NeXt
failed. Rewrote it to run on Intel hardware and now we has it :-)
Fozzy
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