Re: ZIP archives

FROM : Nick Zitzmann
DATE : Tue Jul 25 22:08:57 2006

On Jul 25, 2006, at 1:39 PM, I. Savant wrote:

> Be advised that if the option to install the BSD subsystem was 
> unchecked during OS X installation, this will not be available. 
> This bit me early on with one of my own applications and I had to 
> do some digging to figure out that this was the problem. The user 
> had reinstalled her OS and for whatever reason (I think she said to 
> "save space" on her laptop) chose not to install the BSD subsystem. 
> This had come up several times within a three month period before I 
> finally patched it (lazy, I know), so it's definitely frequent 
> enough to look out for.


In Tiger and (probably) later, the BSD subsystem is not an option 
during installation.

Nick Zitzmann
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