[ABE.pm] I'm a Mac user!

[Ricardo SIGNES]

* "Faber J. Fedor" <faber at linuxnj.com> [2006-08-17T22:46:11]
> On 17/08/06 22:30 -0400, Ricardo SIGNES wrote:
> > GNU ls is in GNU coreutils, which I compile.  
> 
> What's the diff between GNU ls and OSX ls?  I just ran a few examples
> lses (sp?) and I don't see a diff.

color support, for one thing.

> > I only compile-from-source GNU coreutils, wget, mutt, and perl.
> 
> wget is a must.

Just yesterday I was saying, "Why the heck isn't wget included?"

> I'm going to stick with my linux box to do email for now.

Oh, another thing preinstalled on your mac?  postfix.

I use offlineimap, mutt, and postfix to read/write mail on my commute.

> The OSX perl isn't A Proper Perl?

It's really perl, but it uses the /Library structure, etc.  I recompile a new
perl as soon as I install OS X so that, when a new perl version comes out, I
can install that and nothing much changes.

-- 
rjbs
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