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Re: NetInfo


  • Subject: Re: NetInfo
  • From: Doug McNutt <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2008 11:36:03 -0700

At 09:23 -0800 3/8/08, Paul Scott wrote:
>Well, that's all fine and dandy, but where's the GUI? -- dscl et al  don't cut it.
>
>On Mar 7, 2008, at 11:35 PM, John Baltutis wrote:
>> See: "Analysis: The end of Netinfo"
>> <http://www.macworld.com/news/2007/11/16/netinfo/index.php?pf=1>
>

The thing I disliked most about NetInfo Manager was its insistence on maintaining a database that was impossible to learn about. NextStep seems to be the originator of that. The good old text files that I used well before the Mac 128 were still around but got ignored too often.  /etc/hosts did work even though we were warned not to use it. Others worked only in single user mode.

It appears that there are, once again, text files that take the form of XML plists (if they're not compressed for no good reason).

It sounds as though those plists ought to be subject to Apple scripting. I'm looking forward to some offerings to handle tasks that come up regularly. There IS documentation for the formats of the plists, isn't there? The reference above implies that they can be edited with any text editor but it doesn't say what it takes to make the changes get noticed.

I can't do much because I'm stuck at OS 10.3.9. I refuse to give up my SE/30 file server that won't run with 10.4 or 10.5 clients.
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