Re: how to remove bind?

On 4 June 2011 16:02, AV3 <arvimide <at> earthlink.net> wrote:
> On Jun/4/2011 10:3550 AM, Liam Proven wrote:
>>
>> On 4 June 2011 06:56, Ric Moore<wayward4now <at> gmail.com>  wrote:
>>>
>>> I put my hands on a Mac notebook today for the first time. There is no
>>> "terminal" app on it!! How novice can a user be considered?? No command
>>> line whatsoever and a million people pay for that.
>>
>> What? Yes there is. It's called "Terminal" and it's in the Utilities
>> folder.
>>
>> Or, if you install X.11, you can run xterm if you prefer.
>>
>> If it was running classic MacOS - 9.x or earlier, from the 1980s or
>> 1990s - then, no, there is no CLI. That family of OSs *has* no
>> command-line; it was a pure-GUI system from version 1.0 in 1984. If
>> you really want a sort of command-line on an old classic MacOS box,
>> then you can install the Mac Programmer's Workbench which has a sort
>> of a shell.
>>
>
>
> All the above is true, and you can boot up in "console" mode. I believe the
> key combination to hold down on start-up depends on the OS and hardware
> model.

Also true!

Cmd-S will get you to single-user mode on any model of Mac running Mac
OS X, from an old PowerMac with OS X 10.0 to a modern Intel box with
10.6 "Snow Leopard".

-- 
Liam Proven • Info & profile: http://www.google.com/profiles/lproven
Email: lproven <at> cix.co.uk • GMail/GoogleTalk/Orkut: lproven <at> gmail.com
Tel: +44 20-8685-0498 • Cell: +44 7939-087884 • Fax: + 44 870-9151419
AIM/Yahoo/Skype: liamproven • MSN: lproven <at> hotmail.com • ICQ: 73187508

--

-- 
ubuntu-users mailing list
ubuntu-users <at> lists.ubuntu.com
Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users