At 15:46 -0700 1/8/10, I wrote: >Quoting: > >ShellService is a service component - it provides functionality that other >applications use.In the Services menu (under the application menu), >ShellService adds an item called Execute Text. This item will be enabled >whenever you have text selected in applications which support the service. >When you choose this item, the text will be sent to the command-line shell and >executed, and the output of the command will be returned to your text >window.The way that Execute Text works is very similar to (and inspired by) >the Worksheet window interface of the venerable MPW, Apple's development >environment on older Mac systems. MPW was the closest thing to a command-line >many older Macs had, but it has not been updated for MacOS X. Since MacOS X >has a full UNIX command line, I thought MPW users might enjoy a >worksheet-style portal to it.ShellService is free. The author welcomes >feedback. >
And there were a couple of links that I was sure were working. But I lied. The *.tar.gz file you download turns out to be an error message in HTML after gzip expansion. The tar -x tool just fails quietly. Christopher Corbell posted the original service in 2002 and declared it freeware at the time. All links to it have disappeared. Mr. Corbell seems to have published iPiano for the iPhone more or less recently but I'm not up to any more googling. I have made an image of the *.app file that is the service binary as it exists on my OS 10.3.9 box and it works with a new user after I create a directory "Services" under $HOME/Library/ if it's not there already. mkdir $HOME/Library/Services The image is at: <ftp://ftp.macnauchtan.com/Software/BBEdit/Services.dmg> 86 KiB Warning: I'll have the lady of the house try the service with OS 10.6 but BBEdit isn't installed on her machine. The service doesn't require BBEdit but it does depend on Next Step's pasteboard concept in which selections are just there without an explicit copy operation to a clipboard. Note to Bare Bones: The Execute Text service ought to be available wherever BBEdit is installed. It is especially useful in TEXT files when the features of worksheet, XML, files are needed but the underlying file will be used by other applications. How about making it, or your version of it, an option the way the bbedit tool is installed? I want MPW as a real shell for OS neXt !! -- --> The U. S. Census Bureau missed a bet by not counting all of those embryos in cold storage. <--
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