Great apps that one should not be without (using Cocktail)

[Charles Martin]

> From: "Meg St. Clair" <megsaint at earthlink.net>
> Message-ID: <BB116B3D.C1B3%megsaint at earthlink.net>
>
> Uh, well. I don't know. I don't *remember* ever installing it but I 
> guess I
> could have. I installed Jaguar on my iBook. This 12 inch PB came with. 
> Wiser
> folks than I will have to answer this.

The BSD subsystem is installed by default IF you choose an easy 
install. If you do a custom install, you can opt NOT to install it.

IOW, almost everyone running Jaguar has the BSD subsystem in place 
already. Only those who deliberately turned it off do not.

See my previous post about how to "restore" the BSD subsystem.

(and yes, BSD is the core of OS X, however the part Apple calls "the 
BSD subsystem" is not part of that. It's mostly UNIX stuff and extras 
that help UNIX-based apps run. This is different from *both* the "core" 
of OS X *and* the "developer tools" stuff.)

_Chas_

"The Mac interface is not 'sexy', and it would be grotesque to want it 
to be. It is, in fact, playful, often well over the line into 
frivolity. The bouncing icons (and the puffs of smoke and the 
pipe-organ speech synthesizer and the way dialogs tidily resize and the 
drop-shadows on the windows and the jellybean buttons and the eject key 
on the keyboard) are not individually rationalizable on utilitarian 
grounds, and they do not pretend they mean to be. They are there to, in 
aggregate, change the nature of your relationship with the device. They 
are joyful, and they hope their joy is infectious." -- Glenn McDonald