Unfluffing the Dictionary

[richmond62]

Platinum glossary.txt

Oh, Dear: our cousins haven't, obviously heard about 'Aqua' . . . what was that about being 'late to the party'?
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Description:
The standard appearance for controls, windows, and menus on Mac OS|Mac OS systems. Platinum is the default, Apple-supplied user-interface theme for Mac OS.

Sorry, but am dumping that file; and if you really want to try running OXT on MacOS 9.1 I wish you the best of luck, but don't ask me for help.

[richmond62]

ResEdit glossary.txt

Yeah, well:

Description:
resource|Resource editor for Mac OS|Mac OS systems, published by Apple Computer.

https://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/resedit.html

ResEdit is a free Resource Editor for Win32 programs.

AND this, surely, became redundant just as soon as Apple released MacOS 10.5.
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https://macgui.com/downloads/?file_id=22288

ResEdit 3.0d3c3

Dumping the file.

Even if this is rather cool:
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[richmond62]

All the 'bumfodder' about resource forms takes me back to 1996 when I remember having a long discussion about them with a wonderful Somali man at Malik Adbul-Aziz University in Jeddah, K.S.A.

I remember the fun we had managing to install MacOS 7.6 on some, frankly, fairly manky Macs the Saudis had hidden away once they realised how 'dangerous' they would be for the "medical" students when they realised that the kidneys were not in the ankles (as they were told by their Pakistani lecturers) and various other empirical findings in the free medical software bundled with the machines.

Unfortunately the problem about fundamentalists is that they can NEVER separate the data fork from the resource fork: all ideologies push a unified theory of everything.

Even Russell and Carnap had the decency, finally, to admit that a unified theory of everything was a chimaera.

[richmond62]

revMacFromUnixPath function.txt

The contents of this file currently make almost no sense at all; especially as, if one changes all references of the Macintosh operating system(s)
to MacOS, the distinction between MacOS 9 and later systems is obscured.

Dumping this file.

[richmond62]

That's another 32 documents "done".

I am sure a lot of what I have preserved is also redundant, and I am inclined to believe that most of the Dictionary is not fit for purpose, and
it never ceases to surprise me that "those who pay" have never attempted to bring pressure to bear: but, then, they don't seem to have about anything else either.

When I discovered that my son, at a very expensive school in Germany, was being required to attend Catholic services (in no way our family 'flavour'), I was "right there" making fairly trenchant remarks: and he was 'excused'.

All of that being slightly hilarious as the school's founder was both my godfather and a Jew.

Spent 3 hours farting around at the Polyclinic: Quack + Chest X-Ray + Quack again + a bag of fairly expensive pills: let's see if the groovy feeling of having all those things to swallow makes me get better even if they are really ineffective Ding An Sich.

Certainly the state of the inherited Dictionary is NOT doing my mental health that much good.

[richmond62]

That's a moving target. It launched as "Macintosh", grew in the '90s as "Mac OS", the first NeXT-based versions were "OS X", now currently "macOS". Who knows what they'll call it in the future.

Yup: I am aware of that.

BUT, in a vague (possibly misguided) attempt to be consistent I am using 'MacOS' on 2 principles

(which are NOT principles at all; more Richmond's prejudices: but the Dictionary is, as far as I can see, an exercise in prejudice anyway)

1. It is the name Apple have used most over the years.

2. It is more easily recognised than, say, 'OSX', 'OS X', or any of the other names the Dictionary is peppered with.

And, if anyone really objects to 'MacOS' then they can just sit right down and do the tedious thing I am doing all over again . . .

. . . so there!

[richmond62]

revUnixFromMacPath function.txt

another document that will be almost impossible to understand if all the incidences of names for Apple's operating systems are all set to 'MacOS'
and largely irrelevant.

Dumping

Re 'Dumping': this ONLY means that I am NOT editing them and NOT transferring them to my 'Edited' directory.

Tom or Paul basically end up getting the 'buck' chucked back at them: sorry.

[richmond62]

"Mummy, what's the difference between 'Mac OS', 'MacOS', 'macOS', 'MacOS X', 'Mac OS X', 'OS X', and 'Macintosh'?"

"The answer, son, is that a Dell Optiplex 580 is cheaper, and Linux will help it run like a charm and allow you to get things done without having to agonise over Apple's inconsistency and confusion with naming conventions."
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69 Leva = 34 Euros = £29 = $37

Buy a cheap air ticket and spend a few days with 'Uncle Richmond'.

DISCLAIMER:

This guy is a personal friend of mine, I teach his son English, all the computers in my school are supplied by him: and we are completely hand-in-glove.

[richmond62]

soundChannel property.txt

"Mummy, what is HyperCard?"

"Son Hypercard WAS about 10 years before you were born."

soundChannel
(property)
Has no effect and is included for compatibility with imported HyperCard stacks.

I wonder if anyone is doing that sort of thing nowadays.

[richmond62]

system keyword.txt

I had to pop over to the other side of the room to fire up my G3 iMac running MacOS 9.1. to check this:

The system format is set by the Date & Time control panel (on MacOS|MacOS systems)

But since about MacOS 10.0 this has been nonsense:
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And referring to various comments about 'dislike' for a company elsewhere in this forum.

I really do feel that information that is 24 years out of date (especially in a Commercial product) is indefensible.

The system format is set in the System Preferences/Settings (on MacOS|MacOS systems)

Hiring all sorts of clever people to develop/implement the next 'clever' feature is one thing, but the fact that an undergraduate could not have been hired for a simple summer job to do what I am doing at the moment speaks 'buckets' about a corporate attitude towards paying customers.

[richmond62]

textFont property.txt

On MacOS systems, if the specified font isn't available, the system font (which is set in the Appearance control panel and specifies the font used for menus) is used.

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That's from MacOS 7.6

"You can not change the font. You can set the system font to bold, but that's it. you don't get a choice of fonts."

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/54 ... ortBy=rank

[richmond62]

umask property.txt

Oooo: I have not seen this one previously:

"On Mac OS Classic and Windows systems"

emphasis mine.

And while umask did not exist on 'Mac OS Classic' it most definitely has from MacOS 10.0 as that is a disguised UNIX system.

[tperry2x]

Just a quick note, wanted to say how appreciative I am of you keeping going with this. I've been wiped out by covid at the moment (think I was almost nearly totally wiped out, truth be known), so just typing this on a phone is difficult.

[richmond62]

So . . . for what it's worth I have "done" as many references to all the funny names that the editors of the inherited Dictionary have used for Apple's operating system(s).

Here is the 'raw' folder containing those that have already been through the 'UNIX filter.

Shortly I will 'merge' them with all the other files and upload them.

Very sorry about the fairly stupid name for this: it did at least make some sense to me.

Oh, wait a mo': this thing doesn't seem to like my daft name ('resaved -UNIX *MacOS.zip') so I'll rename it and try again.
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[richmond62]

The Dictionary is 'chock full' of references to the X-windowing system.

Undoubtedly a whole load of Linux distros will cling to X11 for a while, but Wayland is fasr approaching.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayland_(protocol)

XFCE 4.20 (announced yesterday - 15 December - is already halfway 'there' re Wayland).

[tperry2x]

Another one for dictionary editing:

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This dialog box isn't displayed on MacOS, because Quicktime effects aren't supported in the OS anymore.
I suppose this entire answer effect can be deleted?