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Old 04-21-2011, 07:42 PM   #42
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You would be better off getting a Linux box and learning the unix commands. They are more obscure, but Mac uses a flavor of Linux and many powerful script languages (Perl, Python) work well from the command line.

Go to Amazon and sign up for their "Cloud". Somewhere (I forget where) they have profiles that will create a virtual instance of RedHat or Debian or .. other flavors of Linux.

This gives you a real environment that disappears when you log off and you have zero risk of hurting anything.
VirtualBox is free, and works well for building one or more virtual machines in your Windows, Linux, Macintosh, or Solaris box that can run most any OS. For an MS-Dos VM you'd only need a few mbytes of storage and one mbyte of RAM. I have one running Ubuntu on my Win7 box.
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