On Apr 20, 2010, at 11:21 PM, Mark Sokolovsky wrote:
ere's a good question. When i run into a program (let's say it was
Front Row)... I know how to install the code, but I can't see the
PowerPC code or the intel code. When i open it in textedit or any
other program, i get just a full page of codes.
Opening a binary program in a text editor is useless, regardless of
the architecture.
IN answer to your question, Leopard ships as 'fat binaries' meaning
they have both PPC and Intel binaries stuck together in the same file.
You can strip architectures from a fat binary using the ditto command:
<http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20050810112422666>
But fundamentally you're not going to get where you want to go without
the source code for OS X and that is not let out (The source code for
Darwin is completely different, but Darwin lives in /private, not /
System, which is where all the Snow Leopard code lives.).
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