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Mac OS X Tiger for Unix Geeks
By Brian Jepson, Ernest E. Rothman
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Publisher: O'Reilly
Pub Date: June 2005
ISBN: 0-596-00912-7
Pages: 415

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		Copyright
		Preface
			Audience for This Book
			Organization of This Book
			Xcode Tools
			Where to Go for More Information
			Conventions Used in This Book
			Comments and Questions
			Safari Enabled
			Acknowledgments from the Previous Editions
			Acknowledgments from Brian Jepson
			Acknowledgments from Ernest E. Rothman
		Part I:  Getting Around
			Chapter 1.  Inside the Terminal
				Section 1.1.  Mac OS X Shells
				Section 1.2.  The Terminal and xterm Compared
				Section 1.3.  Using the Terminal
				Section 1.4.  Customizing the Terminal
				Section 1.5.  The Services Menu
				Section 1.6.  Bonjour
				Section 1.7.  Alternative Terminal Applications
				Section 1.8.  The open Command
			Chapter 2.  Searching and Metadata
				Section 2.1.  Spotlight
				Section 2.2.  Resource Forks and HFS+ Metadata
			Chapter 3.  The Mac OS X Filesystem
				Section 3.1.  Working with Foreign Filesystems
				Section 3.2.  Files and Directories
			Chapter 4.  Startup
				Section 4.1.  Booting Mac OS X
				Section 4.2.  Adding Startup Items
				Section 4.3.  Scheduling Tasks
			Chapter 5.  Directory Services
				Section 5.1.  Understanding Directory Services
				Section 5.2.  Programming with Directory Services
				Section 5.3.  Configuring Directory Services
				Section 5.4.  NetInfo Manager
				Section 5.5.  Directory Services Utilities
				Section 5.6.  Managing Groups
				Section 5.7.  Managing Users and Passwords
				Section 5.8.  Managing Hostnames and IP Addresses
				Section 5.9.  Exporting Directories with NFS
				Section 5.10.  Flat Files and Their Directory Services Counterparts
				Section 5.11.  Restoring the Directory Services Database
			Chapter 6.  Printing
				Section 6.1.  Printer Setup Utility
				Section 6.2.  Common Unix Printing System (CUPS)
				Section 6.3.  Gimp-Print
			Chapter 7.  The X Window System
				Section 7.1.  Installing X11
				Section 7.2.  Running X11
				Section 7.3.  Customizing X11
				Section 7.4.  X11-based Applications and Libraries
				Section 7.5.  Connecting to Other X Window Systems
				Section 7.6.  Virtual Network Computing
			Chapter 8.  Multimedia
				Section 8.1.  Burning CDs
				Section 8.2.  Video
				Section 8.3.  Image Editing
				Section 8.4.  3D Modeling
			Chapter 9.  Third-Party Tools and Applications
				Section 9.1.  Virtual Desktops and Screens
				Section 9.2.  The Application Menu
				Section 9.3.  Exposé
				Section 9.4.  Virtual Desktops
				Section 9.5.  SSH GUIs
				Section 9.6.  R with an Aqua GUI
				Section 9.7.  NeoOffice/J and OpenOffice
			Chapter 10.  Dual-Boot and Beyond
				Section 10.1.  Why Bother?
				Section 10.2.  Linux on Mac Hardware
				Section 10.3.  Emulators on Mac OS X
				Section 10.4.  Emulating the Mac
		Part II:  Building Applications
			Chapter 11.  Compiling Source Code
				Section 11.1.  Compiler Differences
				Section 11.2.  Compiling Unix Source Code
				Section 11.3.  Architectural Issues
				Section 11.4.  X11-based Applications and Libraries
				Section 11.5.  Xgrid
			Chapter 12.  Libraries, Headers, and Frameworks
				Section 12.1.  Header Files
				Section 12.2.  The System Library: libSystem
				Section 12.3.  libstdc++
				Section 12.4.  Shared Libraries Versus Loadable Modules
				Section 12.5.  Library Versions
				Section 12.6.  Creating and Linking Static Libraries
				Section 12.7.  Creating Frameworks
				Section 12.8.  The Dynamic Linker dyld: Prebinding, the Pre-Tiger Way
				Section 12.9.  Performance Tools and Debugging Tools
				Section 12.10.  CHUD Tools
				Section 12.11.  Interesting and Important Libraries
				Section 12.12.  Numerical Libraries
		Part III:  Working with Packages
			Chapter 13.  Fink
				Section 13.1.  Installing Fink
				Section 13.2.  Using Fink
				Section 13.3.  FinkCommander
				Section 13.4.  Installing Binaries
			Chapter 14.  DarwinPorts
				Section 14.1.  Installing DarwinPorts
				Section 14.2.  Using DarwinPorts
				Section 14.3.  DarwinPorts Maintenance
				Section 14.4.  Installing Binaries
				Section 14.5.  DPGUI
			Chapter 15.  Creating and Installing Packages
				Section 15.1.  Using PackageMaker
				Section 15.2.  Using GNU tar
				Section 15.3.  Disk Images
				Section 15.4.  Creating Fink Packages
				Section 15.5.  Creating DarwinPorts Packages
		Part IV:  Serving and System Management
			Chapter 16.  Using Mac OS X as a Server
				Section 16.1.  Getting Connected
				Section 16.2.  Built-in Services: The Sharing Panel
				Section 16.3.  Email
				Section 16.4.  The Mac OS X Firewall
			Chapter 17.  System Management Tools
				Section 17.1.  Diagnostic Utilities
				Section 17.2.  Kernel Utilities
				Section 17.3.  System Configuration
				Section 17.4.  Third-Party Applications
			Chapter 18.  Free Databases
				Section 18.1.  SQLite
				Section 18.2.  MySQL
				Section 18.3.  PostgreSQL
				Section 18.4.  PHP and Perl
			Chapter 19.  Perl and Python
				Section 19.1.  Perl for Mac OS X Geeks
				Section 19.2.  Python for Mac OS X Geeks
		Part V:  Appendixes
			Appendix A.  Mac OS X GUI Primer
			Appendix B.  Mac OS X's Unix Development Tools
				Section B.1.  Standard Unix Development Tools
				Section B.2.  Apple's Command-Line Developer Tools
				Section B.3.  Macintosh Tools
				Section B.4.  Java Development Tools
				Section B.5.  Text Editing and Processing
				Section B.6.  Scripting and Shell Programming
				Section B.7.  Working with Files and Directories
				Section B.8.  File Compression and Storage
				Section B.9.  Searching and Sorting
				Section B.10.  Miscellaneous Tools
		About the Authors
		Colophon
		Index