Re: .bin file and other annoyances

On 08/11/2009, at 5:50 AM, Jon Paris wrote:

Case in point I had downloaded the iSeries Access a while back and
decided to have a try with that - after much messing about and
Googling I eventually worked out the commands to install it. But
there were no dialogs, nothing has been added to any menus, zilch. So
I dig and google and dig some more but I cannot get the #@$% thing to
run - all I get in the terminal is that it can't find the executable.
I've cd'd into the directory, tried sudo, added a .bin extension, etc.
and nothing.

Check that the executable bit (i.e., the X in *RWX in OS/400 parlance) is set.

Check that the directory containing the executable is in your path.

Try fully qualifying the the path to the executable.

The big problem for me as a Linux/Unix newbie is what the hell to do
when things don't work. Right now that renders it impractical from a
work perspective. I need stuff to "just work" - when to make the OS
do that causes me more grief than with Windows that's when I begin to
wonder.

Now that refrain sounds so similar I could have said it ...

The strides Ubuntu in particular has made in the 2 years since I last
seriously looked at it are amazing - but for me it still doesn't seem
"ready for prime time" unless you are a Unix hack. So me - I'll be
staying with my Mac for the foreseeable future. But I will see about
using Linux for file servers etc. in the Network

My conclusion too. At present my OS/2 server is doing all that I want from a server and installing *nix of any variety is simply too much effort. *nix is nowhere near as easy to use as my Mac and if I have to get "down and dirty" with the Unix underpinnings of MacOS X then terminal allows that--although I do have to use man or my trusty Unix reference materials.

Regards,
Simon Coulter.
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