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Of course Apple bought NeXT and used the OPENSTEP operating system as a basis for our current Apple operating system. Many consider Mac. Copy of OS X or just download. Columns From The Devil. If you build a table with many columns making it to surpass the size of the note width, the app will allow you to scroll the entire table right/left so you can see it entirely, but it will not resize the column width to fit its content even if your column text is smaller then the column width - odd behaviour 🤨 – felima Jul 21 '20 at 1:29.
Using Acronis True Image 2019 and later you can duplicate all your data and make macOS bootable on your new hard drive via Disk Cloning. You can use this to migrate to a new Mac computer or to clone the system to an external HDD and have a bootable copy of the system. Keep in mind the following limitations. Most of the cloning solutions (ie superduper) are Mac based. Does anyone know of a cloning solution that is Win7 OS based please? I'd like to read my drive in Win7 OS. I'd also like to back the drive up by cloning it to an external USB drive. I only have a Win7 OS laptop available to use at this time.
All right, I confess. As usual, I was having a little difficulty coming up with a topic for this month’s column. Just as I was about to pull out most of my hair, some of our readers came to the rescue with some interesting questions. It seems that there is quite a bit of interest in creating utility disks with custom installations of Panther as well as “cloning” OS 9. I will also briefly mention a good reason for having an OS 9 disk around if your system can still boot from it. Let’s step into the lab and get to work.
The Mad Scientist’s Toolbox
If you have been reading my column for a while you know that I often tinker with several Macs. Tinker with any computer long enough, it will eventually rebel and refuse to work. Even if you do not tinker with your Mac, eventually something will go wrong and repairs will become necessary.
Making disk-based repairs on your Mac often requires more than one utility. That used to require some variation of the following procedure: boot your system from a utility disk, repair the disk drive, boot your system from a different utility disk to correct any problems left behind by the first utility. This process would continue until the drive was either repaired or so badly damaged that further repairs were impossible.
Give It the Boot?
In a previous column, I described a procedure for creating an emergency CD capable of running several utilities without the need for multiple reboots. Although that procedure worked well under Jaguar, it does not work for those of us running Panther.
You may recall that under Jaguar the process of creating an emergency CD relied on a program called BootCD. In theory, it should have been possible to use the same process under Panther even if it meant using a DVD instead of a CD. Well, the reality is a bit different. The current version of BootCD is not compatible with Panther. With all the new features included in Panther, there were numerous changes to the underpinnings of OS X. Somewhere along the way, we lost the ability to create our own “bootable” CDs.
I am not usually good at taking no for an answer, but this time I may have to for a while. After haunting several message boards and reading posts from Mac users who have tried just about every conceivable method of creating a bootable Panther DVD, I am forced to conclude that it cannot be done right now. Since “cloning” Panther is still possible, your best bet seems to be to copy your installation to another drive and use utilities there to correct any problems.
What about Nine
I also received some questions about cloning OS 9. That one was a bit of a puzzler for me. I rarely use OS 9 or Classic anymore except to run a handful of applications that I have not upgraded yet. Even though I do not often use OS 9, I must admit cloning it is a good idea.
Cloning OS X is a complicated process. Along with its Unix underpinnings comes a plethora of invisible files that need to be copied. Cloning OS 9 is a much simpler process by comparison, in part because there are far fewer invisible files to cause problems. So just how do you clone OS 9 anyway?
In your quest to clone OS 9 you might be tempted to simply use the Finder and copy files from your source drive to the target drive. This may work in some circumstances but the difficulty is that some programs might not work properly. If this happens you will often see problems with programs not remembering their serial numbers.
Since my basic philosophy is to use as few tools as possible, my first choice for cloning OS 9 is to use the same tool I would use to clone OS X. I have used Carbon Copy Cloner several times to clone OS 9 and it seems to work well.
Cloning OS 9 using Carbon Copy Cloner is essentially the same process used to clone OS X. It has been a while but here are the basic steps:
Launch the program and select your OS 9 installation as the source drive. If OS 9 is on a separate volume, you can simply select the entire volume. This is the best way to assure that you get any invisible files that have been created by your favorite program.
If you are running Classic from the same drive as OS X, you need to select the right folders. The order that the folders are selected in is not as important as getting the right folders. Look for the following items: Applications (Mac OS 9), Documents, System Folder, and any other files that you want to copy. It may take some trial and error to get all of the necessary files. The exact files vary from one machine to another.
I tend to deselect any Norton FileSaver files from the list regardless of whether I am cloning OS 9 or X using Carbon Copy Cloner. It seems to hang every time it encounters one of these files. Once you have finished selecting files, click Clone and wait for the process to finish.
If you are not running OS X, you are not left out in the cold. Any of the third-party backup programs should be able to clone OS 9. At one time, I used LaCie’s Silverkeeper. I used an earlier version of this program some time ago but stopped using it when I migrated to OS X because it did not work properly. ATPM reader Tyler Stringer informs me that the current version of this program does a great job cloning OS 9. It was also a Pick of the Week at Mac OS X Hints. There are versions of Silverkeeper for both operating systems. It is a free utility but you must provide your name and an e-mail address to complete the download.
Hanging on Just a Little Bit Longer
I was on the verge of completely removing OS 9 from my system because I had not run it or Classic for months. Now I have a project at work that will require running some software that I have not upgraded. The upgrades are available but not a high priority right now.
There is another reason to keep OS 9 around or at the very least to keep an OS 9 CD around. Under OS 9, you can see most files that are normally invisible under OS X. If you do not have an OS X utility that allows you to delete such files, they can often be removed under OS 9. You must do this with caution. Removing the wrong file can ruin your OS X installation until that file is replaced.
Given the potential dangers, why would anyone want to remove invisible files from an OS X installation? That’s what I thought too, but while haunting Mac OS X Hints one day I ran across this tip from a fellow Mac user having difficulty deleting a huge log file that had grown to consume several gigabytes of hard drive space. Why the file refused to be deleted under OS X is open for debate. Most likely, it was still registering as “in use” by some extension or process. There was also some debate about whether this task could be accomplished from the Terminal. If you experience this problem and are reluctant to use Terminal this might be an option as long as you know what you are deleting and what it does.
Well that’s it for now. Summer vacation is approaching, and I may have time to test a few ideas that I have seen recently. Until then the lab door is open and I’ll keep an eye out for new questions.
Copyright © 2004 Sylvester Roque, sroque@atpm.com.
by John Kheit
GNUstep, Mac OS X Compatible On Intel Hardware
June 6th, 2003
Macintosh OS X for Intel processors has long been a topic of debate for Apple aficionados. Regardless of where you stand on that debate, whether you're for or against Apple using Intel processors, there is another option brewing: GNUstep.
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In the Beginning There Was NeXTstep
What is GNUstep? Well let's step back just a bit. Before there was OS X, there was OPENSTEP by NeXT. Of course Apple bought NeXT and used the OPENSTEP operating system as a basis for our current Apple operating system. Many consider Mac OS X to be OPENSTEP 6.0. However, prior to 1997, NeXT released an open specification to its libraries for OpenStep. In effect, the GNUstep organization used that specification to build a GNU based version of OS X. GNUstep even includes Display Ghostscript (i.e., Postscript). GNUstep could conceivably run on any number of base operating systems. Just as the middleware and higher levels of OS X run on the base Unix/Darwin variant, middleware and higher levels of GNUstep have also been abstracted from the base operating system.
Write Once, Release Everywhere
If you haven't asked yet, you should by now: 'why should I care?' You should care because GNUstep is so similar to OS X that applications developed for it are basically Cocoa applications. Currently, you can go to GNUstep.net and download a slew of programs that will build and run with literally a single click. To do so, all you have to do is install the OS X Development Tools that either came with your copy of OS X or just download them for free (after registering for free).
You can use InterfaceBuilder.app to modify and customize Cocoa programs to a great extent by rummaging within an application's package. In fact, every Macintosh owner should install the development tools. Not because everyone should become a programmer, but simply because GNUstep and Cocoa projects are so easy to build and modify; think of InterfaceBuilder.app as Resedit on steroids. The process to build a GNUstep application for OS X basically requires you to double-click on the program's .pbproj file in the Finder, and then click on the big Build button (it looks like a hammer) in Project Builder.app and you're done. That's it.
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Currently, what this means for you is that a few GNUstep applications already can run under OS X and might be worth checking out. For example, GNUMail.app is developing into a nice Mail.app alternative. You can find other programs at Collaboration World, and a Japanese site (English and Japanese versions available).
This is an incredibly big development as it enables write-once-deploy-everywhere software design for Cocoa programmers. Back in the day, a NeXT programmer would build a Cocoa-like application, and cross develop the program by simply checking off hardware architectures in a list just before pressing the Build button in ProjectBuilder.app (at one time this included Motorola 680x0, Intel x86, HP PA-RISC, and SUN workstations). One click and your single application would be compiled into a 'fat' binary that could be run on any of these computers. With GNUstep being so portable, it is only a matter of time before it's layered not only atop Linux, but Darwin and Windows.
GNUstep/Cocoa Applications on Windows Could Change Everything
If you think it's silly to have something like GNUstep on Windows, think again. NeXT used to provide OPENSTEP for Windows. Unfortunately for many developers, Apple has pulled the plug on the technology preventing one-click cross compiling for Windows by restricting its tools.
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All of this changes with GNUstep. If Cocoa developers can take their application, and just build a fat binary version including GNUstep libraries so that it can run under Windows, Linux or OS X, the developer's market just became orders of magnitude bigger.
Two things are needed before GNUstep explodes onto the scene, which may well threaten Apple.
- An easy to install GNUstep + BSD/Darwin/Linux distribution needs to be developed;
- A Windows layer/version of GNUstep needs to be developed.
Item A is already available at SimplyGNUstep, but needs to be updated. Item B is being worked oncurrently.
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GNUstep. Mac OS X Cocoa, Hold the Carbon and Classic
This means that a lot of people are going to be able to run Cocoa OS X programs, not only on Intel machines, but on various operating systems. This may make things more difficult for Apple when comparisons of speed take place with the same code running; except now judgments can be made not only on which processor architecture is faster, but also on which operating system performs better.
This might become a good reason for Apple to consider releasing proprietary Intel hardware because such comparisons might make it more difficult to obfuscate lagging performance. As much as GNUstep will do for the Apple platform by providing high quality Cocoa programs, in time, GNUstep could provide some with less reason to stick with Apple. Of course GNUstep does not, and probably will never, provide any Carbon or Classic compatibility. Nevertheless, Apple should pay close attention to what is fast becoming a free clone of OS X.
John Kheitis an attorney. Please don't hold that against him. This work does not necessarily reflect the views and/or opinions of The Mac Observer, any third parties, or even John for that matter. No assertions of fact are being made, but rather the reader is simply asked to consider the possibilities.
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