John Doherty via mailmate wrote (at 7:50 PM on Monday, January 23, 2023): > On Mon 2023-01-23 08:39 PM MST -0700, <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Glenn Parker wrote (at 6:09 PM on Monday, January 23, 2023): >> >>> On 23 Jan 2023, at 19:13, John Cooper wrote: >>>> But why bother with counters.txt and stdout and stdin? I would suggest >>>> quitting MailMate, making a copy of >>>> ~/Library/Preferences/com.freron.MailMate.plist, editing the copy directly >>>> in a reliable text editor such as BBEdit… >>> >>> You could try that, but you’ll quickly notice that >>> com.freron.MailMate.plist is a binary file. >> >> That's not my experience. >> >>  > > That's interesting: > > $ file ~/Library/Preferences/com.freron.MailMate.plist > /Users/XXXX/Library/Preferences/com.freron.MailMate.plist: Apple binary > property list > > $ sw_vers > ProductName: Mac OS X > ProductVersion: 10.15.7 > BuildVersion: 19H2026 > > $ man pl | grep old > pl can be used to check the syntax of old-style ASCII property list > > Do not know when "old-style ASCII" plists were superseded by "Apple binary."
I don't think it's a matter of when. I'm running MailMate 5925 on Mac OS 13.1. I think the "binary" designation is just a way to keep text programs from understanding the file as a text-based file. (BBEdit is one of the few programs that will attempt to open any file you ask it to.) _______________________________________________ mailmate mailing list [email protected] https://lists.freron.com/listinfo/mailmate
