Osxutils 1.7 review

Osxutils is a package of potentially useful Mac-oriented command-line utilities for Mac OS X version 10.

License: Freeware OS: Mac OS X File size: 0K Developer: Sveinbjorn Thordarson Price: $0.00 Updated: 27 Jul 2006

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Osxutils is a package of potentially useful Mac-oriented command-line utilities for Mac OS X version 10.0 or later (although the functionality of some tools may be specific to later versions).

These tools represent an effort to bring command-line control over certain aspects of the Mac OS, particularly file meta-data such as Finder flags, heritage file Type and Creator codes, icons, comments, labels and suffixes / file extensions.

What's New:
Some new and useful tools:
hfsdata tool
wsupdate tool
setvolume tool

Updates to existing tools:
getfcomment now gets OS X comments, not just OS 9 Dekstop Database comments
Major bug fixes for lsmac
Minor bug fixes and code cleanup for setsuffix, setlabel, getfcomment, geticon, hfsdata, lsmac, mkalias, setfcomment, setfctypes, setfflags, seticon, setlabel
Updated man pages
New 'osxutils' overview tool
All projects updated to XCode 2.2
Code cleanup.

Requirements:
Some programs may require 10.3 or later in order to be useful or relevant.