Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 19:41:26 +1000 (EST) From: Iain Templeton <iain@research.canon.com.au> To: Andy Newman <atrn@zeta.org.au> Cc: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>, Jonathan Graehl <jonathan@graehl.org>, freebsd-Arch <freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: configuration files, XML, Mac OS X release Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10103261938210.26273-100000@blow.research.canon.com.au> In-Reply-To: <200103260909.f2Q99S836903@juju.bsn>
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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
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