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Operating Systems OS X (Apple) OSX: ./Users/myname OR. /usr/myname ? 1) what is the truth on UNIX ./usr/ directory. Post 303004754 by drl on Sunday 8th of October 2017 07:02:47 AM
Old 10-08-2017
Hi.
Quote:
Originally Posted by [MA]Flying_Meat
...What reeeeeeealy bugs me is the undefined status of what is an Application, and what is a Utility. Smilie
Smilie
One source:
Quote:
Utility software is system software designed to help analyze, configure, optimize or maintain a computer.[1] It is used to support the computer infrastructure in contrast to application software, which is aimed at directly performing tasks that benefit ordinary users.

Although a basic set of utility programs is usually distributed with an operating system (OS), utility software is not considered part of the operating system, and users often install replacements or additional utilities.
Excerpt from List of utility software - Wikipedia

Referred from What are considered utilities and applications? - Unix & Linux Stack Exchange -- q.v.

Best wishes ... cheers, drl
 

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MKTORRENT(1)						      General Commands Manual						      MKTORRENT(1)

NAME
mktorrent - simple BitTorrent metainfo file creator SYNOPSIS
mktorrent [OPTIONS] <target directory or filename> DESCRIPTION
mktorrent is a text-based utility to create BitTorrent metainfo files used by trackers and torrent clients. It can create metainfo files for single files or complete directories in a fast way. OPTIONS
-a <url>[,<url>]* specify the full tracker announce URLs. At least one is required and additional -a add backup trackers -c <comment> add a comment to the metainfo -d don't write the creation date -h show help screen -l <n> set the piece length to 2^n bytes, default is 18, that is 2^18 = 256kb -n <name> set the name of the torrent, default is the basename of the target -o <filename> set the path and filename of the created file, default is <name>.torrent -p set the private flag (dissalow DHT and Peer Exchange) -v verbose output -w <url>[,<url>]* add web seed URLs, additional -w add more URLs COPYRIGH
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later version. AUTHORS
Emil Renner Berthing <esmil@users.sourceforge.net> This manpage was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution by Nico Golde <nion@debian.org> BUGS
Please send bug reports, patches, feature requests, praise and general gossip about the program to: esmil@users.sourceforge.net mktorrent MKTORRENT(1)
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