On 22 Jan, 2004, at 12:02, Ken Rossman wrote: >> How hard would it be for Apple to update that? > > That'll probably get updated around the same time that all the other > older Berkeley Unix-isms in OSX get fixed up -- like many of the man > pages, which are just plain a little bit wrong here and there... The real issue here is not Apple updating them, but when will the FreeBSD folks update them? Remember, the core of Darwin is FreeBSD -- it's Open Source. Anybody can submit changes and maybe they will be adopted. "Man magic" for info on the file. If you look at the magic file, you will see quite a few Apple formats defined. T.T.F.N. William H. Magill # Beige G3 - Rev A motherboard - 768 Meg # Flat-panel iMac (2.1) 800MHz - Super Drive - 768 Meg # PWS433a [Alpha 21164 Rev 7.2 (EV56)- 64 Meg]- Tru64 5.1a # XP1000 - [Alpha EV6] magill at mcgillsociety.org magill at acm.org magill at mac.com