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		lmz on June 1, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How to copy a file from a 30-year-old laptop Mac OS X is a UNIX (of sorts). Mac OS classic (as in the article) is most definitely not.

Rinzler89 on June 1, 2024 [–]

So that version of MAcOS had no possibility of some command line shell scripting?

bas on June 1, 2024 | | [–]

Brings back memories, but you'd have to install a programming environment, e.g.:

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_Programmer%27s_Works...

- http://www.think-pascal.org/#SetUp

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/THINK_C

Sesse__ on June 1, 2024 | | [–]

There was no command line at all.

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