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Re: [hylafax-users] double-click to install?



I am looking at it, but it is end of year for our business, so I doubt I 
will get to look at it any more until after easter.

I would like to tie it in with some of the software version tools being 
developed / deployed for OS X.

Cheers,

Guy

On Saturday, March 16, 2002, at 11:56  AM, Lee Howard wrote:

> On 2002.03.15 11:32 Simon wrote:
>> hi, is anyone working on a nice "double click to install" version of 
>> hylafax for mac os x? a nice aqua interface wouldn't go amiss either.
>
> Not that I'm aware of (is anyone working on an OS X installer).  I'm 
> playing with making HylaFAX more OS X friendly, but I'm not an OS X 
> fan, by far.  I'm struggling right now with understanding NetInfo, and 
> so until that's understood, there's not much that can be done from me.
>
> You can find my installation instructions at:
> http://www.hylafax.org/howto/misc/installnotes.html#OSX
> However, change "sys" in step 3 to "bin".
>
>> the greatest disappointment with osx is that it has opened up the mac 
>> platform to a wonderful array of tried and tested unix applications, 
>> but 99% of mac users don't have the first clue (and frankly, don't 
>> want to have the first clue) about the intricacies of command-line 
>> based unix.
>
> And Mac's GUI spoiled PC users when Microsoft changed MS-DOS for 
> Windows.  Most Windows users I know hate using the command-line prompt, 
> which often is a more powerful place for file manipulation, etc.
>
>> for all those that do know unix out there, the new mac platform is 
>> desperately short of a reliable piece of fax software - all that is 
>> available is FaxSTF-X which is trash. some unix-head could make an 
>> awful lot of money out of marketing a simple to install and use 
>> version of hyla fax.
>
> Something very similar was said (by me) about 6 months ago on the 
> -devel list.
>
> Lee.
>
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