> > On Fri, 02 Sep 2011 08:09 -0500, "Dieselhead" > > <126die...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > If you are running *nix on a mac platform, then you are left > > out of the industry terminology, so you have to say "*nix > > running on a mac" to describe yourself.
> Allan Streib wrote: > > If you are running OSX on a Mac you are running *nix too (of a > BSD-ish flavor) Not really. Just because I put a OM617 in a Model A doesn't make the car a Mercedes. In the same way, OSX has some BSD at the core, but there is so much "junk" piled on top it hardly counts as *nix anymore. Ordinary core *nix tools don't even work fully. For example, "cp" won't copy the resource fork that OSX uses/needs. At least, that was the case last I check. -- 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
