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This "script" that runs MacOSX is more like a multithreaded and well thought out program. Give it some respect, bozo.

I try to tar a directory yet it doesnt seem to work??? [localhost:~] hunter% tar -C xfer/ tar: Failed open to read on /dev/nrst0 <No such file or directory> the dir IS there I want to archive and compress this file..what else can I do????

wow, that makes me feel a lot better. I am glad that Apple doesnt have multiple installations around the system, that would be moronic. I did not even think of opening up /usr/bin/java Duh.... Just a question, suppose I set my JAVA_HOME var to /usr/bin/java, even though its a...

"whereis java" yields: /usr/bin/java yet.. it seems like the more used jdk is in /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.3/ This is quite unsettling. According to "man whereis" : The whereis utility checks the standard binary directories for the speci- fied...

I am pretty new to unix. I have been using osx since 3/24. It seems that the general dir to install applications on other unix systems is to /usr/local OSX has this too, however, is /Users/someUserName just as good a place?? what differences will occur if I install something in either...