06-30-2002
Quote:
Originally posted by LivinFree
Now, MacOSX, as I understand it, pretty much has the user logged on a privelaged user all of the time (maybe it's just in console mode). That puts MacOSX is the same boat as a Windows 98 machine.
This is not entirely true. In most home computer cases, a user with admin privileges is logged on all the time. Now just because the user has admin privileges does not mean they have full System Admin privileges. This just means they are allowed certain privileges to run and alter programs, not the system files itself. Now if a program were to affect a system file or the system folder, it would ask the user for an admin login and password. So in essence, you would know if something were trying to access your system.
Terminal (or Darwin, the Unix core) on the otherhand is a bit different. I am not too entirely familiar with it but I am learning. From what I understand, you do have more access privileges in the Terminal than in OS X. But Unix is a bit more of a powerful operating system so that does not surprise me.
And to straighten something out . . . Mac OS X is built off of a Unix core, which means that OS X is not entirely Unix. Therefore you can attempt to infect your OS X box with a Unix "virus" unless u tried to running Terminal. Nor can you (from my understanding) infect OS X with a "virus" (if you can find one) from Unix, this case the Terminal.
If I am wrong on any of this, someone please point out my error. I am here to learn just as any other.
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MAKETEXT(1) User Contributed Perl Documentation MAKETEXT(1)
NAME
maketext - translate and make messages
SYNOPSIS
maketext [OPTION] [--domain=TEXTDOMAIN] MSGKEY [PARAM...]
maketext [OPTION] -s MSGID [PARAM...]
DESCRIPTION
The "maketext" script translates a natural language message into the user's language, by looking up the translation in a message MO file,
and process the plural transformation with Maketext.
The "maketext" script is a command-line interface to Locale::Maketext::Gettext(3) (and Locale::Maketext(3)). It can be used in shell
scripts, etc, to translate, maketext and return the result. By this way, it enables Maketext to be integrated into other programming
languages/systems, like bash/csh, python, PHP, C, etc. It works like the command-line program gettext.
For example:
% maketext -s "[*,_1,virus was,viruses were] found in [*,_2,file,files]." 0 1
0 viruses were found in 1 file.
% maketext -s "[*,_1,virus was,viruses were] found in [*,_2,file,files]." 1 3
1 virus was found in 3 files.
%
OPTIONS
-d,--domain=TEXTDOMAIN
Retrieve translated messages from TEXTDOMAIN.
-s Adds a new line to the end of the output so that it behaves like the `echo' or the `gettext' command.
-h,--help
Display the help messages.
-V,--version
Display version information and exit.
MSGKEY
The original text used to look up translated text.
PARAM...
Parameters to Maketext for the plural and other text functions.
ENVIRONMENT
TEXTDOMAIN
TEXTDOMAIN is used to determine the text domain when the -d parameter is not given.
TEXTDOMAINDIR
TEXTDOMAINDIR is used to search the message catelog/MO file if it does not reside in the system locale directories.
NOTES
Maketext language function override, like "quant" or "numerate", is not available here. Suggestions are welcome.
The current system locale directory search order is: /usr/share/locale, /usr/lib/locale, /usr/local/share/locale, /usr/local/lib/locale.
Suggestions are welcome.
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SEE ALSO
Locale::Maketext(3), Locale::Maketext::TPJ13(3), Locale::Maketext::Gettext(3), Locale::Maketext::Gettext::Functions(3), bindtextdomain(3),
textdomain(3). Also, please refer to the official GNU gettext manual at <http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/>.
AUTHOR
imacat <imacat@mail.imacat.idv.tw>
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (c) 2003-2007 imacat. All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same
terms as Perl itself.
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