[Ham-Mac] [linuxham] OS X hint

[Elwood C. Downey]

Hello all,

Two little things. One is, since I've been using UNIX since it was first released from
Bell Labs in the 70s, I'm want to say that Linux is a "work-alike" to UNIX and has a
completely separate heritage. It was started from scratch by Linus Torvalds in the early
90s. On the other hand, Mac OS X is "real UNIX" in that it derives from Berkeley UNIX,
aka "BSD", one of the early adopters of the Bell Labs source.

The other thing I would like to mention is a way to tell the Mac Finder to display <all>
files and folders. Open Terminal and type (or better copy/paste) the following line:

defaults write com.apple.Finder AppleShowAllFiles YES

For this to take effect you'll need to restart Finder as follows: hold down Option, then
click and hold the Finder icon in the Dock, then glide down and release on "Relaunch".
Now you will see the hidden "dot files" as well as much more stuff than you may have
even known was there. If you find it more than you can bear, repeat these two steps but
replace YES with NO in the command above.

73, Elwood, WB0OEW