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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers Macos is the UNIX? Post 303040007 by Corona688 on Monday 21st of October 2019 04:33:00 PM
Old 10-21-2019
In the literal, legal sense, UNIX means you had your operating system tested and certified as UNIX-compliant. Apple did this, and Linux hasn't (and perhaps can't, except for a tiny subset of configurations and features.)

In the same sense, Windows NT was partly compliant back in the day. They hastily added enough bolt-on modules and compatibility software it was compliant for a few narrow cases.
 

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PNGCHUNKS(1)						      General Commands Manual						      PNGCHUNKS(1)

NAME
pngchunks - print information embedded into a PNG file SYNOPSIS
pngchunks file DESCRIPTION
pngchunks is a program that displays informations from files created according to the Portable Network Graphics file format. EXAMPLE
pngchunks input.png Chunk: Data Length 13 (max 2147483647), Type 1380206665 [IHDR] Critical, public, PNG 1.2 compliant, unsafe to copy IHDR Width: 256 IHDR Height: 256 IHDR Bitdepth: 8 IHDR Colortype: 2 IHDR Compression: 0 IHDR Filter: 0 IHDR Interlace: 0 IHDR Compression algorithm is Deflate IHDR Filter method is type zero (None, Sub, Up, Average, Paeth) IHDR Interlacing is disabled Chunk CRC: -753909967 Chunk: Data Length 6 (max 2147483647), Type 1145523042 [bKGD] Ancillary, public, PNG 1.2 compliant, unsafe to copy ... Unknown chunk type Chunk CRC: 554438993 Chunk: Data Length 9 (max 2147483647), Type 1935231088 [pHYs] Ancillary, public, PNG 1.2 compliant, safe to copy ... Unknown chunk type Chunk CRC: -757235972 Chunk: Data Length 7 (max 2147483647), Type 1162692980 [tIME] Ancillary, public, PNG 1.2 compliant, unsafe to copy ... Unknown chunk type Chunk CRC: 429243611 Chunk: Data Length 831 (max 2147483647), Type 1413563465 [IDAT] Critical, public, PNG 1.2 compliant, unsafe to copy IDAT contains image data Chunk CRC: 1406256926 Chunk: Data Length 0 (max 2147483647), Type 1145980233 [IEND] Critical, public, PNG 1.2 compliant, unsafe to copy IEND contains no data Chunk CRC: -1371381630 SEE ALSO
pngchunkdesc(1), pngcp(1), pnginfo(1). AUTHOR
pngchunks was written by Michael Still <mikal@stillhq.com>. This manual page was written by Nelson A. de Oliveira <naoliv@debian.org>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others). Tue, 31 Jul 2007 17:55:51 -0300 PNGCHUNKS(1)
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