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How about integration into Sherlock/Watson?
Authored by: alajuela on Aug 05, '02 02:09:02PM

What's the point of having all this stuff if there isn't an easier way to get at it? No flames, please, I love the Terminal, but greping for stuff is not tricial, and certainly not a pitch for the Switch campaign

Any thoughts on why this stuff is there?



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How about integration into Sherlock/Watson?
Authored by: Anonymous on Aug 05, '02 02:16:03PM

maybe they're used while configuring the OS installation?
ever wonder how the Mac OS X installer did know your phone number or postal code wasn't right!?



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How about integration into Sherlock/Watson?
Authored by: bluehz on Aug 05, '02 04:13:41PM

I was just wondering the same thing. What is the actual purpose of these files in the whole scheme of things?



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How about integration into Sherlock/Watson?
Authored by: dannyobrien on Aug 05, '02 04:48:15PM

They're part of the standard BSD distribution. BSD is the
open source bit of the MacOS X operating system.

If you find that their values are out of date, feel free to correct them
and send the corrected file to either the Darwin maintainers, or NetBSD,
which looks to be where these files came from.

More useful BSD data files in /usr/share/dict/ including a list of
proper names, and a fairly large word list, based on Websters.



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How about integration into Sherlock/Watson?
Authored by: Glanz on Aug 06, '02 08:09:32AM

I use BBEdit Lite quite often for files like that by using the "Open//hidden" option. This is convenient because you do not have to leave the "show hidden files" option active to search the directories. It's actually faster than the terminal because of the GUI. Any number of text editors will do the job, but I find BBEdit the fastest.



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re: bbedit too slow
Authored by: dm2243 on Aug 06, '02 04:28:50PM

for me, the "open hidden" feature takes forever. much faster is this:

% locate somefile
% bbedit path_to/somefile

assuming one's locate db is up-to-date.



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How about integration into Sherlock/Watson?
Authored by: aranor on Aug 25, '02 08:00:02PM

You can actually open hidden directories in the finder with the Go To Folder command (Cmd-` in MacOS 10.1.x and Cmd-Shift-G in Jaguar). Oh, and you can tab-complete in that editfield as well. Nifty.



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