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Mac OS® X Tiger™ Unleashed
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Mac OS® X Tiger™ Unleashed

by John Ray, William Ray
June 2005
Intermediate to advanced
1560 pages
45h 7m
English
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Bridging the GUI to Command Line Gap: Hybrid Software

One final class of software we'll touch on in this chapter is a diverse group of commands, programs, and applications that we've taken to calling hybrid software. These programs bridge the gulf between the GUI and command line, bringing GUI interfaces to command-line tools or command-line access to traditionally GUI features. Hybrid software is one of the most interesting and potentially enabling aspects of Mac OS X, and currently seems to be one of the most overlooked as well. We hope we've convinced you by now that command-line software can be incredibly powerful, even if you might still have reservations regarding how user friendly it might be. Many hybrid applications bring the user-friendly ...

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