

Terminal can be found by opening the Finder, select Applications and Utilities. In this case, as I pointed out, that's the internet and response time, respectively.Task: To perform an nslookup on a Mac OS X computer. What matters is at best that the user understands what is needed to make it work and what its major limitations are.

There's no reason why every user has to understand how every script on their computer works. Why are scripts a special case from any other software? If people were required to understand how every utility they use on their computer actualy works, then they'd be able to use very little, and software developers wouldn't have much of a market. Unlike air, the internet is not everywhere, and that's an important consideration for notebook users (I'll forget that you totally overlooked the response time issue.).Īnyway, a better note is not to use any scripts that you don't understand However, by far the majority of units that Apple sell are portables. If you only own a desktop workstation I can appreciate that you'd miss the point. So, if you don't have an internet connection, you wouldn't be reading this 🙂

Right/command click on "External Frameworks and Libraries", choose "Add.", choose "Existing Frameworks.", choose "amework", and click "Add". NSString * output of : search, (NSString *)def] ģ) Add the CoreServices framework to the project. Since you work in terminal most of the time, a little Xcode can't hurt.ġ) Create a new Foundation Command Line Tool in Xcode. The suggestion given above launches Dictionary.app, which is apparently not what you want. from MacPorts) which is a client for online dictionaries. You could install the POSIX 'dict' command (e.g.
