Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 15:25:49 -0500 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: "Jonathan Graehl" <jonathan@graehl.org> Cc: "freebsd-Arch" <freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: configuration files, XML, Mac OS X release Message-ID: <p05010401b6e555e38f12@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <NCBBLOALCKKINBNNEDDLKECIDNAA.jonathan@graehl.org> References: <NCBBLOALCKKINBNNEDDLKECIDNAA.jonathan@graehl.org>
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At 10:35 AM -0800 3/26/01, Jonathan Graehl wrote: > > Applications query the same "defaults database" for their >> preferences. So you could type a 'defaults' command in >> one window, and the application will see that the next >> time it checks (probably the next time the application >> is started). No need to log out and back in. > >... like the Windows Registry ;) (duck) No. More like the defaults database on nextstep, which was running about five years before Windows95 saw the light of day. It's always amusing when people claim MacOS 10 is stealing something from Windows, when those very things existed in NeXTSTEP before Windows was shipping. But now we have digressed... -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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