Running Mac OS X Panther by James Duncan Davidson The unconfirmed error reports are from readers. They have not yet been approved or disproved by the author or editor and represent solely the opinion of the reader. Here's a key to the markup: [page-number]: serious technical mistake {page-number}: minor technical mistake : important language/formatting problem (page-number): language change or minor formatting problem ?page-number?: reader question or request for clarification This page was updated 29, 2004. UNCONFIRMED errors and comments from readers: (42) Between 4th and 5th paragraph; The text says 'However, if you want to specify another application to open the file with, such as BBEdit (http://www.barebones.com) so that you can edit the HTML, you can use the -a option as shown: % open -a Safari ~/Sites/index.html I'm thinking you want it to read more like: % open -a BBEdit ~/Sites/index.html {38} Example 3-2; The command won't work as indicated if there are any *.txt files in the current directory. The example should use quotes around the pattern: $ find ~/Documents -name '*.txt' It's probably too complicated, but the explanation could go like this: "You should put the pattern in single quotes if it contains wildcard characters. Normally it is the shell, not the program being called, that processes wildcards. But in this case, we don't want the shell to replace *.txt with the list of files matching the pattern. We want the actual characters *.txt to be sent to the find program. Using quotes tells the shell to leave the asterisk as it is." {43} 1st osascript example; I think "MyScript.applescript" should be removed from $ osascript MyScript.applescript "/Library/Scripts/URLs/Download Weather Map.scpt" It seems like it was from an earlier version of the example. (45) Example 3-8; There shouldn't be a period at the end of the example's caption. {45} last line of Table 3-5 (underscore); The underscore variable in bash is the last element of the previous command line. It is only the last command when the last entry consists of only a command name. (72) 1st sentence; The sentence "As SystemStarter runs, it launches as many of the system startup items in parallel as possible which helps to speed up the boot process." is just a variation on a similar sentence in the previous paragraph on page 71. One or the other should go. {79} last paragraph; The Hide checkbox does not affect whether an application appears in the Dock. It determines whether the application's initial window will appear. It is "hide" in the sense of the "Hide Application" option in the Application menu. Applications that run without appearing in the Dock (I don't have HotSync, but my test case is iCalAlarmScheduler) will not appear in the Dock whether the Hide checkbox is checked or not. (103) last paragraph; Missing word after "another", perhaps "way", in "Alternatively, you can specify the mode of a file in another; however, this is a more arcane syntax that you will see quite often." (120) box at bottom; "Regular expressions" is used as the name of "a small, highly specialized language" (singular) in the first sentence, but then the second sentence refers to "they". I would suggest "Regular expressions (also known as regex's) use a small, highly specialized language..." with "use" instead of "is". {129} 2nd paragraph; It appears to me that it is "iCalAlarmScheduler" not "iCal Helper" that is used "...to keep track of events and fire them off on schedule whether or not iCal itself is running." iCalAlarmScheduler is included as a Startup Item and is running in the background. iCal Helper is not running in the background. It appears to run only when an alarm has been activated. {150} 1st new paragraph, 2nd and 3rd sentence; Limitations listed are only for OS 8. For OS 9, the maximum file size is 2 TB. In OS X, the maximum number of files in a folder is 4 billion. In Jaguar, the maximum volume and file size is 8 TB. Panther can handle 16 TB of data (volume size), 4 billion files, allows for files up to 16 TB in size and each folder handles a maximum of 4 billion files (i.e. no limitation other than total file count). See Apple Knowledgebase Articles #24601 and 25557 (151) 3rd paragrah; Journaling is spelled with 1 'l' throughout the paragrah and in the heading, etc... The last sentence has Jounalling with 2 'l's. I've seen it spelled both ways but it should probably be consistent.