From owner-freebsd-arch Mon Mar 26 1:56:50 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rpi.edu (mail-100baset.rpi.edu [128.113.22.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8AAA837B718 for ; Mon, 26 Mar 2001 01:56:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.acs.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by mail.rpi.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id EAA26574; Mon, 26 Mar 2001 04:56:43 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: References: Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 04:56:42 -0500 To: Iain Templeton From: Garance A Drosihn Subject: Re: configuration files, XML, Mac OS X release Cc: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 7:41 PM +1000 3/26/01, Iain Templeton wrote: >On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Andy Newman wrote: > >> Garance A Drosihn wrote: > > > I like some of the things they did with a user-level > > > "defaults" database, to get away from environment > > > variables. (there's a unix command called 'defaults', > > > at least in MacOS 10). > > >Isn't that to some degree what login.conf can do for you? >I know you can set environmental variables there. Or is >it rather that apps look in defaults, or some other >semantic difference? Applications query the same "defaults database" for their preferences. So you could type a 'defaults' command in one window, and the application will see that the next time it checks (probably the next time the application is started). No need to log out and back in. [although I'm not sure how much discussion of MacOS 10 we'd want to get into on the freebsd-arch list...] -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message