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    text conversion : unix <--> mac

    I'm using "old" soft running under Classic (like mathematica or kaleidagraph) and other programms running under macosX (matlab excel...). I often swicth from one to the other and I use text tabulated files to save my data and to open them with another soft. When I use textedit, or alpha or...
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    text conversion : unix <--> mac

    Hello I got a bit confused with all the file formats avaible with textedit. Which text format does use macos9 applications, and which text format does use MacOsX applications ? . BBedit just offers 3 possibilities (mac unix dos), but it's the right one. ps : I am french, so I may use...
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    Mac LAN: I need some newbie help!

    Hello Why don't you use the shared folder in /Users/Shared for the things you have ti share ? In jaguar, the Get Info is not working propely. You should use the terminal and type "chmod -R 777 FolderName" to get the full acces of your folder (but it's not a very good idea...). The -R option...
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    fink and teTeX for newbies

    In fact, my newbee was refering to macOsX and not to LateX (sorry !) I am already using LateX, but with OzTeX and alphaX (beta). So I have LateX files ready to be compiled. My problem is how to use this particular engine (TeteX) and where find the "geting started" manual for the first try. Is...
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    launch applications as a specified user

    When i get my ibook I just open a session with the administrator rights and used it as the current session :-( . But mathlab works only with a limited rights, so i open another session to use it. My problem was :I couldn't acces my whole data because one half was from the administrator...
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    fink and teTeX for newbies

    Hi I just download "fink" in order to install the teTeX distribution on macosX 10.2 . Everythings seems to be ok, exept that i don't know how to use teTex. In wich directory is it installed ? Where is the documentation ? What has exactly done fink ? Thanks a lot.
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    launch applications as a specified user

    You know, i didn't plane to hack myself. :) I am a poor (french) physicist who just wants to run a software (matlab ::evil:: ) wich needs to be launch from a session with NO admistrator privilege from it's current session wich has the administrator privilege. If I understand your point...
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    launch applications as a specified user

    I want to launch an application from the terminal as another user without lefting the session. I try "login", "su" , "sudo" before the "open" command but each time I get this error message : kCGErrorIllegalArgument : initCGDisplayState: cannot map display interlocks. kCGErrorIllegalArgument...
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