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SubjectRe: converting raw images from Canon EOS 600D
FromEric Stevens
Date12/03/2013 21:24 (12/04/2013 09:24)
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On Sun, 1 Dec 2013 18:18:56 -0800, Savageduck <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com>wrote:

Savageduck
On 2013-12-02 01:08:17 +0000, Eric Stevens <eric.stevens@sum.co.nz>said:

Eric Stevens
On Sun, 1 Dec 2013 13:03:01 -0800, Savageduck <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com>wrote:

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Savageduck
OSX isn't arcane, but its UNIX under pinnings certainly are, ...

Eric Stevens
Eh! Certainly not, at least if you go back to the beginning and follow their structure as they developed.

Savageduck
Oh! Certainly not! Come on Eric! You followed their structure as they developed?

There are a few simple concepts, processes, pipes, tees, standard error, standard in, standard out etc. There are a few simple processes which the machine runs by parsing a text string. Text strings are used to define more complex processes in terms of the simpler ones that have gone before. Simple instructions are terse e.g. 'ls' for list, 'rm' remove, 'mkdir' for make a directory. The MS-DOS command line instructions have taken many of these unchanged.

Unix isn't arcane?

In some sense all computer control method/languages are arcane, if you don't already know them. So too is English if you try to learn it by working word by word through the Oxford English Dictionary.

OSX isn't a Unix based graphical interface OS?

I never said it wasn't.

Development of OSX started with NeXT. It is UNIX 03 certified and Darwin compliant and once you head back to Terminal and the Command line it is as arcane and geeky as can be, or you could possibly want it to be.

... and those who insist on dealing with their Macs via the Terminal and Command Line input are as geeky, if not geekier than any LINUX user.

Eric Stevens
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Regards,

Eric Stevens