On 9/8/02 9:51 PM, "Joel Rees" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> John Labovitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> responded:
>
>> On 9/8/02 8:01 PM, "Joel Rees" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>> Obvious thought, but have you tried plist?
>>
>> It doesn't seem to be that -- I tried both "pl" and "plutil", and neither
>> wanted to read it. But I have no experience with plists, so maybe I'm not
>> running these correctly...
>>
>
> Hmm --
>
> http://www.macaddict.com/osx/hacks/pledit.html
>
> talks about PropertyListEditor or something like that. (picked up by
> searching with google for "plist".)
>
> They don't let me use my iBook at work, so I can't check what it was I
> used last, but I keep trying to convince myself that some editor allowed
> me to load and save compressed plist files. I'm probably confused,
> though, seems like I spend most of my time confused.
Ah, yes -- PropertyListEditor does exist (in the Developer Tools), but
crashes when trying to load that cache file. :(
Methinks we shouldn't be going down this path, really. Apple has a defined
way to get to this stuff:
http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn/tn2017.html
....which is probably exactly what the 'open' command uses to figure out
which application to launch.
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John Labovitz
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