Another nice thing to note about Mac OS X however, is that it is a unix based OS, which means that a LOT of Unix utilities will run through the terminal, especially for file management/conversion functions. Perl comes installed standard to the Darwin Kernel on OS X and so you also have all of the free utilities built in Perl, and open source, (as that's how Perl works), completely available to you. Granted, nothing that runs in a Unix terminal is as pretty as it could be...but for old DOS lovers like myself, it's kind of nostalgic.
--- Scot Hanna-Weir Music Engraver A-R Editions, Inc. Middleton, WI www.areditions.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 4/6/06 10:32 AM, "David W. Fenton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 6 Apr 2006 at 10:50, A-NO-NE Music wrote: > >> David W. Fenton / 2006/04/06 / 08:20 AM wrote: >> >>> as Partition Magic and other partitioning products have >>> been able to do nondestructive repartioning of active volumes for >>> over a decade (that's how long I've been using it, since 1996). >> >> Which isn't possible (at least not reliable thing to do) on Mac file >> system. I don't want to sound negative but non-Mac file systems are >> much more loose, and Mac users, at least I, have been envy about that. >> On the other hand, Mac file system made multiple boot from any volume >> possible. > > I was just sure that Partition Magic had a Mac version. I also know > for a fact that the professional version used to support Linux, but > since they've been bought by Symantec (ARGH!!!), they seem to have > made it a Windows-only product. Since it seems that they've > eliminated the Linux support, I wonder if that implies that my memory > of the Mac support was correct? > > Then again, Linux support only requires the ability to read/write the > volume, not the capability to run on Linux (since it reboots its own > OS, rather than rebooting in the installed OS). From Googling, I > can't see any evidence that Partition Magic can work with Mac > volumes. > > That's too bad -- it's such a great thing to be able to do. I'm > constantly resizing partitions on existing drives for myself and for > clients. It's something I've come to consider as standard practice. > > Of course, once Windows is on a dual-boot MacIntel, I wonder if > Partition Magic can then work from WinXP? While Googling I definitely > saw instructions for using Partition Magic in Windows to resize > partitions for installing Darwin on Intel hardware (this predates the > MacIntel). But that was also allocating a partition to install OS X > on, rather than dynamically resizing after the OS X installation. _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
