Actually doing a search just on Jepson returned the info I was
looking for. Perhaps searching by author is a little easier than
title. Again, thanks.
Scott
On Feb 20, 2006, at 2:33 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Dan,
One good source of information about how to approach Macs
OS X from a Unix or Linux background is the O'Reilly book,
Mac OS X Tiger for Unix Geeks, by Jepson. That title is
available from bookshare.org along with a few other good
books that were discussed on the list last October. There's
also a good summary list titled "Top Ten Mac OS X Tips
for Unix Geeks" that was published at the O'Reilly page
for Macs. A couple of items are dated -- the standard
shell has been bash, not tcshrc since OS 10.3 (Panther) and X11
is standard in the system. However, the other background
information is pretty good, especially the information on
what happens at startup and what the file system layout is like.
The "Top Ten Mac OS X Tip for Unix Geeks" is at the web page:
http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2002/10/22/macforunix.html
For more in depth and up-to-date information, check bookshare.org
for "Mac OS X Tiger for Unix Geeks"
Hope this helps,
Esther
On Sunday, February 19, 2006, at 06:00PM, Dan Keys
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
You know, that brings up a point.
While I can certainly understand trade secrets, many of us are
already familiar with Linux and Unix and such. I wish there was much
more information on the different processes used in Apple's flavor of
Unix and in particular how the GUI apps work with the underlying
Unix. and the other way round. Furthermore, I wish there was much
more information available on Mac's terminal, including Sin-tax and
anything especially pertaining to Mac and its particular flavor of
Unix.
Just a thought, along with your questions regarding mail processes.
Dan
