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all very funny and educational! Tks!

What is involved in porting to the Mac OS platform>

Will try next time if/when it happens...I have only had it once...you seem to have it more often....when does it happen for you?

Any likelihood of WINE(*) being available any time soon as compiled binaries for Mac OS X? * Wine is an implementation of the Windows 3.x and Win32 APIs on top of X and Unix. Think of Wine as a Windows compatibility layer. Wine provides both a development toolkit (Winelib) for porting Windows...

I too ended up with things in the trash that even as root I could not delete. The solution was to drag them from the trash and put them on the OS 9 desktop. Restart in OS 9 and delete them from there! ...a tip that I got from here!

Reading the documentation harder, I realise that the http_proxy = http://proxy.pandora.be:8080/ use_proxy = on are not environment variables, but need instead to be in the .wgetrc file in your login directory. Now everything works fine!

...with code samples. But you will need to use gnutar instead of tar to get it to work http://www.wiredpenguin.com/docs/Securing-Optimizing-Linux-RH-Edition-v1.3/chap29sec306.html

The Apple knowledge base has full explanations with beautiful pictures. http://www.info.apple.com/kbnum/n58465 Just search for "eject CD"

...but it is late here in Belgium so I will check it fully another day!

tar, as supplied with OS X, seems not to have the --newer option, nor any other way to specify to backup files newer than some date.....am I missing something? I downloaded GNU tar which does seem to have that feature and tried to make it with "sh ./configure" but it does not recognise the...

set http_proxy = http://proxy.pandora.be:8080/ set use_proxy = on ...according to the GNU documentation but it still hangs when I try to retrieve anything eg: [localhost:~] roger% set | grep proxy http_proxy http://proxy.pandora.be:8080/ use_proxy on [localhost:~] roger%...

and downloaded NFSManager 1.0b7c which is a GUI that makes everything easy.

http://www.kmi.be/IRM-KMI/imapro/meteosat.html

I would like to grab (every 6 hours, with a cron job) my local satellite image from http://www.kmi.be/IRM-KMI/imapro/meteostat.html where the file is always called m_2_ir.jpg and drop it into the directory for the custom screensaver so that I can have the latest view of our fabulous...

I had read the man for date and I knew that I wanted to use something like the example but what I did not know was the trick with the '`' character. Is there documentation somewhere that describes things like this?

I want to automate my backus using tar and cron but I want to archive to disk for later writing to CD. How can I create a filename that contains the date in some recognisable form in the tar command? I want to do something like: tar cvf /tmp/full-ddmmyy.backup /users...

Thank you!

my text file comes from a mac application and whilst it seems to have line separators in the GUI applications, these turn out to come from ^m characters. So sort does not see them as separate lines! I guess I need to use sed first....but how to replace control characters....or is there a...

lastcomm give me: lastcomm: /var/account/acct: No such file or directory I presume that some accouting option is not turned on but researching man does not shed light on it (for me at least)....what needs to be activated/set for this to work?

With all the GB of data and programs that I have now on my Mac with OSX, I would like to have some sensible backup scheme. Ready to automate it with cron and do "offline" write to CD. What is/are the recommended stragegies/tools?