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Darwin, the core of OS X, is available for Intel. See the ADC site for info. As to whether or not OSX will make it...

whoops - missed your post. Okay. that makes sense. Testing reveals that if the read startup file is checked, it then looks for a .profile. If it is unchecked, it jsut reads .bashrc. Thanks again.

The DJ - Thanks for your help. Yes indeed this works. Oddly, bash in OS X does *NOT* read .bashrc as stated in the man pages. In fact, it ignores it. It does however, read .profile. For configuring tcsh, a the .tcshrc is sufficient.

I haven't been having any luck either with a G3 with X and other mac systems using 8 or 9. Seems X cannot see the other Macs on the network (although the other macs can see it and connect via appletalk (only by IP though).

thanks for the precompiled binary! I couldn't get the bash source to compile since I haven't installed the developer tools yet. Where do the config files reside (.bash_profile, .bash_login)? I really want to edit my prompt... [Edited by synaptojanin on 10-06-2000 at 10:40 AM]

Actually, it seems to me, editing /etc/hostconfig *IS* already hidden. Almost all of those services can be activated in the GUI, removing the need to edit /etc/hostconfig. Take for example Appletalk. Checking "Appletalk active" in the Network System Preferences changes /etc/hostconfig...