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Date:      Thu, 09 Mar 2023 16:12:45 +0000
From:      Norman Gray <gray@nxg.name>
To:        doug@fledge.watson.org
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: problem while moving HOME from FreeBSD to MacOS with bsdtar
Message-ID:  <C00EF35C-B303-4D41-8EF6-D7501BB6A4FD@nxg.name>
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Doug, hello.

On 9 Mar 2023, at 15:55, doug@safeport.com wrote:

> My experience is that using
>  xterm with tcsh I can ssh into the Mac and pretty much do anything I n=
eed
>  to do with my userid on the Mac.

Yup -- my impression is that Apple don't support headless macOS as such, =
but that you can pretty much look after a macOS box that way.

> On the Mac the file system names are case
>  sensitive with liberal use of blanks.

Are you sure, in a standard install?   On my machine

% ls /uSeRs
Shared/	norman/

so that's case-insensitive.  Of course tab-completion won't work in the s=
hell, if you don't start the filename with its 'correct' case.  Thus /u<t=
ab> won't work, only /U<tab>, but that's different.

> In my experience I have seen no
>  difference between Mac tar and FreeBSD.

Indeed.  My understanding is that the macOS userland is very heavily base=
d on the FreeBSD userland, with judicious exceptions so that, for example=
, 'make' is GNU make, rather than pmake.  Also that significant parts of =
the Darwin kernel overlap with the FreeBSD one.  But although I've seen v=
arious remarks on-list that 'yes, Apple and the FreeBSD project are frien=
ds', I've never been able to find a document which discusses the relation=
ship -- project and code -- in any detail.

Best wishes,

Norman


-- =

Norman Gray  :  https://nxg.me.uk



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