No more resource forks in Snow Leopard, stupidly. Nice for lazy Unix geeks, I suppose, but discarding one of the best parts of the Apple file system isn't smart as far as I'm concerned. It has been a few years since 1965.....
No, OS X isn't free, but neither is any fully developed system. The freeware community (Linux) is only "free" because you don't have to pay money for it. Takes a lot of time and energy to learn it all. Peter -----Original Message----- >From: Fmiser <fmi...@gmail.com> >Sent: May 11, 2011 12:37 AM >To: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes@okiebenz.com> >Subject: Re: [MBZ] Any Windows experts out there? > >> Peter Frederick wrote: > >> And for those that are not aware, on the Mac all you have to >> do to be in that nice comfortable Unix environment, Bourne >> shell and all, is start up the Terminal application in the >> Utilities folder. Nice command line Unix, at your fingertips. > >Almost. > >Gotta watch out for resource forks. Some of the unix CLI tools >don't deal with them correctly. > >And while it's heavily based on BSD, it's very _NOT_ open/free! > >But it still is mighty refreshing to run a screen session over >ssh, use du, mv, cp, ls, rsync, etc. > >I was recently doing video editing in FinalCut, ssh'd to my >Linux box, mounted my working directory on the Mac onto the >Linux via sshfs, and copied files back and forth between the two >machines. Cool stuff! > >-- Philip > >_______________________________________ >http://www.okiebenz.com >For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com >To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > >To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
