From owner-freebsd-arch Mon Mar 26 1:41:32 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from kwanon.research.canon.com.au (kwanon.research.canon.com.au [203.12.172.254]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D16EA37B71B for ; Mon, 26 Mar 2001 01:41:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from iain@research.canon.com.au) Received: from bellmann.research.canon.com.au (bellmann.research.canon.com.au [10.5.0.3]) by kwanon.research.canon.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id D2C34A4B14; Mon, 26 Mar 2001 09:54:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from elph.research.canon.com.au (elph.research.canon.com.au [203.12.174.253]) by bellmann.research.canon.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C7718B10; Mon, 26 Mar 2001 19:30:45 +1000 (EST) Received: from blow.research.canon.com.au (blow.research.canon.com.au [10.8.1.4]) by elph.research.canon.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id B12C53B0; Mon, 26 Mar 2001 19:41:18 +1000 (EST) Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 19:41:26 +1000 (EST) From: Iain Templeton To: Andy Newman Cc: Garance A Drosihn , Jonathan Graehl , freebsd-Arch Subject: Re: configuration files, XML, Mac OS X release In-Reply-To: <200103260909.f2Q99S836903@juju.bsn> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Andy Newman wrote: > Garance A Drosihn wrote: > > I like some of the things they did with a user-level "defaults" > > database, to get away from environment variables. (there's a > > unix command called 'defaults', at least in MacOS 10). > Isn't that to some degree what login.conf can do for you? I know you can set environmental variables there. Or is it rather that apps look in defaults, or some other semantic difference? Not having used a NeXT (and they won't let us plug them in here :-) > Wow, real innovation for once. It used to take two commands in NeXTSTEP. > > -- > Andy (who BTW is going out to buy a Mac tomorrow :) > A friend of mine with a iBook once was going to show me DPx of MacOS X, but he couldn't remember the command to boot it :-) Iain To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message