Re: CPAN shell error with DELETE key

2002-04-26 Thread William H. Magill
that OS X ships with is NFS. I can not say the same thing for HP-UX, AIX, Solaris, Tru64 or any version of Linux. Period. Yes, that means that some things don't just plain work. But it means that I can sleep much better at night. -- T.T.F.N. William H. Magill Senior Systems

Re: OS Poll

2002-09-23 Thread William H. Magill
informative, and believable one I found was: http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,543317,00.asp Guess we'll have to wait for the Microprocessor Forum to see what the real rumors are. T.T.F.N. William H. Magill [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OS Poll

2002-09-23 Thread William H. Magill
attached to Mac stuff. Those of us who work in environments which contain PC users don't like being told that our Macs are the source of their problems. T.T.F.N. William H. Magill [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: AppleScript to Perl w/SOAP

2002-09-23 Thread William H. Magill
of modifications where potential errors can creep in. [And nobody gets miffed that xxx is still credited and he hasn't worked for the company for years.] T.T.F.N. William H. Magill [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OS Poll

2002-09-24 Thread William H. Magill
annoying. Why the release notes cannot be provided on the CD (especially now that we have moved to a 2 CD distribution, is something I still can't fathom. T.T.F.N. William H. Magill [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [OT] Re: OS Poll

2002-09-24 Thread William H. Magill
nothing to do with the creation of the Internet.) Yes, we all want perfection, and we all want it now, but the simple fact that any of this stuff works IS amazing. T.T.F.N. William H. Magill [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: careful with the disk utility file permission fixer upper

2002-10-09 Thread William H. Magill
ONLY sets things according to the values found in receipts in /Library/Receipts. T.T.F.N. William H. Magill [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: What up with the mac

2002-10-14 Thread William H. Magill
shift gears on one either. And as to the list of first rate Shareware, don't forget Avernum and its fellows! Some of us don't like twitch, first-person-shooter games. T.T.F.N. William H. Magill [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OS X meltdown

2002-10-23 Thread William H. Magill
keyProductVersion/key string10.2.1/string /dict /plist ===cut here== T.T.F.N. William H. Magill [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Cranky OS X installs

2002-10-18 Thread William H. Magill
indicate you are installing OS X and have memory problems. They will swap your dims (once the backlog from the dockworkers strike clears out) and the OS X install will magically work. T.T.F.N. William H. Magill [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: hard links on HFS+

2002-11-01 Thread William H. Magill
philosophical changes ahead... HFS+ must become a journaled file system in the not too distant future. Many of us who run OS X Server have been agitating for this since 10.0 and rumor has it that it's in the next release. T.T.F.N. William H. Magill [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL

Re: Sherlock SDK released

2002-11-14 Thread William H. Magill
alone Watson. T.T.F.N. William H. Magill [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: locale in carbon emacs (was: OS X Installed numbers (was: mac-toolbox))

2002-11-15 Thread William H. Magill
of building them yourself. T.T.F.N. William H. Magill [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: hard links on HFS+

2002-11-16 Thread William H. Magill
On Saturday, November 16, 2002, at 11:17 PM, Joseph Kruskal wrote: On 11/1/02 3:47 AM, William H. Magill at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... journaled file system ... What is a journaled file system? In a brief word -- a mechanism whereby updates to the file system are kept in a journal file

Re: hard links on HFS+ (now even further off topic...)

2002-11-17 Thread William H. Magill
function! But that is not the Unix way. T.T.F.N. William H. Magill [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: locale in carbon emacs (was: OS X Installed numbers)

2002-11-19 Thread William H. Magill
-binding Ctrl-a, etc. T.T.F.N. William H. Magill # Beige G3 - Rev A motherboard # Flat-panel iMac (2.1) 800MHz - Super Drive - 768 Meg [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: migration successful

2002-11-22 Thread William H. Magill
processes other than:. This gets rid of that do you really want to do this window when you have only an empty shell active, and have just exited from your remote session. T.T.F.N. William H. Magill # Beige G3 - Rev A motherboard # Flat-panel iMac (2.1) 800MHz - Super Drive - 768 Meg [EMAIL

Re: migration successful

2002-11-22 Thread William H. Magill
session and log back in. Restarting the Finder does not cause the terminal app to re-read the file. T.T.F.N. William H. Magill # Beige G3 - Rev A motherboard # Flat-panel iMac (2.1) 800MHz - Super Drive - 768 Meg [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: migration successful

2002-11-24 Thread William H. Magill
side-effect of the move away from REQUIRING an understanding of Netinfo is that non Mac OS X Unix (or Liunx) people can quickly come up to speed without being immediately confronted by something which is truly foreign to their way of life! T.T.F.N. William H. Magill # Beige G3 - Rev A motherboard

Re: unix or mac-style text files?

2002-11-24 Thread William H. Magill
-- these are the standard Unix cp and mv tools modified to deal with resource forks. ... they do have man pages. There are a number of other similar tools in that directory. Another useful tool is /usr/bin/ditto. T.T.F.N. William H. Magill # Beige G3 - Rev A motherboard # Flat-panel iMac (2.1) 800MHz - Super Drive - 768

Re: unix or mac-style text files?

2002-11-25 Thread William H. Magill
their existence. T.T.F.N. William H. Magill # Beige G3 - Rev A motherboard # Flat-panel iMac (2.1) 800MHz - Super Drive - 768 Meg [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: mea cupla (was Re: unix or mac-style text files?)

2002-11-25 Thread William H. Magill
for the 3 possible events when the line is too long.] The page is quite informative... Thanks for the pointer! [although the table is not complete by any means, it brings back memories of LONG nights caused by long path names.] T.T.F.N. William H. Magill # Beige G3 - Rev A motherboard # Flat-panel

Re: Fixing font spacing in Terminal.app

2003-01-07 Thread William H. Magill
does the new iBook run -- 10.2.3 or 10.2.4? T.T.F.N. William H. Magill # Beige G3 - Rev A motherboard # Flat-panel iMac (2.1) 800MHz - Super Drive - 768 Meg [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Fixing font spacing in Terminal.app

2003-01-07 Thread William H. Magill
powerbooks, it's not much wonder that they won't boot OS 9. While it might be possible, it would take a lot of resources to Qual them and address all of the disable this component if issues. T.T.F.N. William H. Magill # Beige G3 - Rev A motherboard # Flat-panel iMac (2.1) 800MHz - Super Drive

Re: dumb 802.11g question

2003-01-07 Thread William H. Magill
phones I like the idea of 54Mbps, but if I can't use it in conjunction with my telephone Hmm... I've got several Radio Shack 2.4g phones here at home and have had no interaction problems. Of course, my AirPort base station is configured on channel 8. T.T.F.N. William H. Magill # Beige

Re: Now emacs overwrites scrollback buffer?

2003-01-16 Thread William H. Magill
, always simply grabbed the screen where it was ... normally the last (bottom) line of a terminal window and worked backwards (up) from there. T.T.F.N. William H. Magill # Beige G3 - Rev A motherboard - 768 Meg # Flat-panel iMac (2.1) 800MHz - Super Drive - 768 Meg # PWS433a [Alpha 21164 Rev 7.2

Re: where to put things?

2003-01-16 Thread William H. Magill
other documentation to recommend on Startup scripts? OS X for Unix Geeks is the only thing other than the developer documentation. And that new O'Reilly book is the clearest explanation. T.T.F.N. William H. Magill # Beige G3 - Rev A motherboard - 768 Meg # Flat-panel iMac (2.1) 800MHz - Super Drive

Re: where to put things?

2003-01-17 Thread William H. Magill
On Thursday, January 16, 2003, at 02:08 PM, Rich Morin wrote: At 12:44 PM -0500 1/16/03, William H. Magill wrote: On Thursday, January 16, 2003, at 04:07 AM, Rich Morin wrote: I also filed a bug, suggesting that Apple add a startup parameter (e.g., RunAs) that would set the username

Re: [OT] OSX privileges question

2003-09-23 Thread William H. Magill
. T.T.F.N. William H. Magill # Beige G3 - Rev A motherboard - 768 Meg # Flat-panel iMac (2.1) 800MHz - Super Drive - 768 Meg # PWS433a [Alpha 21164 Rev 7.2 (EV56)- 64 Meg]- Tru64 5.1a [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Perl version of GetFileInfo?

2003-10-31 Thread William H. Magill
? T.T.F.N. William H. Magill # Beige G3 - Rev A motherboard - 768 Meg # Flat-panel iMac (2.1) 800MHz - Super Drive - 768 Meg # PWS433a [Alpha 21164 Rev 7.2 (EV56)- 64 Meg]- Tru64 5.1a [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Perl version of GetFileInfo?

2003-11-01 Thread William H. Magill
H. Magill # Beige G3 - Rev A motherboard - 768 Meg # Flat-panel iMac (2.1) 800MHz - Super Drive - 768 Meg # PWS433a [Alpha 21164 Rev 7.2 (EV56)- 64 Meg]- Tru64 5.1a [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Looking for old laptop/notebook

2003-11-11 Thread William H. Magill
= eXternal FunCtioN T.T.F.N. William H. Magill # Beige G3 - Rev A motherboard - 768 Meg # Flat-panel iMac (2.1) 800MHz - Super Drive - 768 Meg # PWS433a [Alpha 21164 Rev 7.2 (EV56)- 64 Meg]- Tru64 5.1a [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Panther problems

2003-11-18 Thread William H. Magill
as it has always worked -- both in zsh (which I normally use, emulating ksh) and bash. I did not even need to modify my .profile from Jaguar. The Borne Shell is different from the C-shell in that environment variables remain local unless exported! T.T.F.N. William H. Magill # Beige G3 - Rev

Re: head

2003-11-23 Thread William H. Magill
correctly. However, since I haven't had a chance to try it out yet, I don't know what the finder and other GUI oriented apps will do. T.T.F.N. William H. Magill # Beige G3 - Rev A motherboard - 768 Meg # Flat-panel iMac (2.1) 800MHz - Super Drive - 768 Meg # PWS433a [Alpha 21164 Rev 7.2 (EV56)- 64 Meg