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    setting up LAN

    I'm trying to connect an OS9.2 Mac to an OS10.2 mac through cross-over ethernet cable. I want to be able to run TCP/IP on it, since the whole point of this exercise is to play a game that doesn't have a "direct-connect" multi-player feature. I can't get any communication to work between the...
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    Can't access root account

    Just a word of caution: Once you enable the root account (i.e., giving root a password), DON'T log in as root. You can su to root in a shell all you like, but if you try running Finder as root, it will cause you nothing but pain. Basically, Finder writes a bunch of global temp files. Once...
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    ls - wildcards and global use

    Learn find. It's syntax is somewhat arcane, but it's a very powerful tool and you won't regret spending the time to learn it. There are few things you can't do by piping the output of find into xargs. :)
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    Help w/ open source software

    When you download source, there will probably be a file called INSTALL or README which tells how to compile and install the program. Usually, there is a shell script called configure that generates a makefile, so the normal sequence of operations is: sh configure make su make install...
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    Poll: What UNIX shell do you use?

    tcsh I think you'll be hard pressed to find someone that likes a shell other tcsh or bash, though I know a couple of zsh zealots.
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    Palm Desktop and OS 9.2.1

    When I was running OS9.1, Palm Desktop (2.6.1 and later 2.6.3) worked fine both in Classic and when I booted directly to OS9. Ever since I upgraded to 9.2.1, Palm Desktop behaves very badly both in Classic and in native OS9. For instance, I can't open the "View Contacts" or "Task List"...
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    multi-button mouse

    I have a 3-button Logitech mouse. Under OS9, it came with a control panel (MouseWare) that let me program buttons 2 and 3 to send any keystroke/click modifier I wanted, and all was good. Logitech does not yet support any such software for OSX, however, and MouseWare doesn't even run in...
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    Terminal Stucked

    Try creating a new user, logging in as the new user, and starting the terminal. If it works, then the problem is almost certainly with your shell and/or your shell init files.
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    Finder CD Burning - Disc to Disc?

    If you want to use iTunes, it should work from there, too. That would be easier than trying to create an image with DiskCopy. You just create a playlist, then click on where the "Burn" button would be. The burn button will appear - you click on it, and away it goes. I got this working on...
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    sshd and 10.1

    Ah, you're right. Under 10.0.0, the remote login option enabled telnetd, so I mentally filed that under "never need to look there again." With 10.0.1, they made everything sane. Thanks.
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    sshd and 10.1

    Back when 10.0.0 came out, I downloaded and built ssh/sshd from the openssh source because it didn't come with 10.0.0. I read from somewhere on this list of how to start the sshd daemon when the machine boots. I remember that it's different than any other UNIX system on earth, but I lost the...
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    Oh, No! No Developer CD in the Update CD!?

    Apparently, it's more fundamental than the project builder. The link loader itself is broken by the update: % cc hello.c /usr/bin/ld: /usr/lib/libSystem.dylib load command 6 unknown cmd field cc -S works, so the compiler proper is OK, but the update has done something to the linker. Is...
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    Well... OSX.1 seems to know I have a CD-RW... and yet... nothing.

    I've got a problem that's weirder still. :) I have a LaCie Plextor CD-RW. It shows up in Apple System Profiler. In system profiler it says that apple disc burning is supported. I can burn data CDs in 10.1! (I couldn't burn anything under 10.0.x) I still can't burn audio CDs from iTunes...
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    Darwin x86 and Mac OS 10.1

    Darwin is an open-source unix kernel that has been around for years. It's based on BSD unix which runs on everything under the sun, so most portability problems were worked out long ago. OSX is an apple-proprietary application. It probably wouldn't compile for x86 unless it was specifically...
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    FTP - Sooooooo slowwwww on OSX/OS9

    Have you tried /usr/bin/ftp? It may not be fancy, but there's a lot fewer layers of software between you and the network than with the gui clients. Fewer things that could possibly messed up. :-)
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    os x force quit - all icons are folders

    Looks like you've got your problem solved, but I just wanted to add a little bit of information. Granted, OSX doesn't use the OS9 desktop file for Carbon/Cocoa apps, but it DOES use it for Classic apps. I've managed to get my desktop file corrupted, and all Classic apps appeared with the...
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    everything opens in classic

    I understand that part. My question was whether or not there's a way to edit the creator-code => application mapping (i.e., change the application that gets opened for a given creator code). I seem to remember this being possible in OS9 (I forget how), and I haven't figured out how to do it on...
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    everything opens in classic

    I've figured out that the problem I was having is that if there is a creator code, it will use that to select the applicatoin, and the "Change Application..." button will be grayed out in the Get Info dialog. When I remove the creator information via SetFile, it seems to use the file extension...
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    Remote login

    You should prefer scp to ftp. Running ftpd on your mac is a gaping security hole. Scp (secure copy) uses the ssh daemon for file transfer. Any decent ssh client should also have scp.
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    everything opens in classic

    My problem is that the "Change Application..." button is always (well, often) grayed out in the Get Info box. Is there a way to set an application for all files with a given file extension? This is the kind of thing that should be really easy, but I can't find it.
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