On Dec 17, 2004, at 12:20 PM, Tom Van Hale wrote:
Though I am pretty proficient and comfortable erasing and doing things in OS
8-9, I'm one of folks who just started working with OS X and don't have a
clue as to what I am doing. Is there an easy way for me to get some basic
information about what things are, i.e. what names mean, when I open the
system or other folders.
Basic rule, if it's in the System folder, leave it the <bleep> alone. Same for the root-level Library folder.
The system in OS X is not like the one in OS 9, you can't go in there and prune and pick things.
A good general OS X book is "OS X: The Missing Manual" by David Pogue, from O'Reilly press. <http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/macosxmm2/> There's also a Panther edition, the one I listed is for Jag.
While shopping at O'Reilly, check out "Learning Unix for OS X Panther" <http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/lunixpanther/> for a good introduction into the Unix underpinnings and power tools available to you 'under the hood', if you're so inclined.
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