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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Downloding Mavericks
Date: 13 Apr 2014 21:32:48 GMT
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On 2014-04-13, Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> wrote:
> On 2014-04-13, Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
>> On 2014-04-12, Warren Oates <warren.oates@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> In article <120420141355360651%nospam@nospam.invalid>,
>>>  nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> wrote:
>>>
>>>> In article <53494b26$0$61351$c3e8da3$5e5e430d@news.astraweb.com>,
>>>> Warren Oates <warren.oates@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> > > Apparently my Apple computer with Intel dual quad core does not
>>>> > > qualify for Mavericks.
>>>> > 
>>>> > <http://arstechnica.com/apple/2013/10/how-to-make-your-own-bootable-os-x-
>>>> > 10-9-mavericks-usb-install-drive/>
>>>> > 
>>>> > <http://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/1rsp3q/install_mavericks_on_older
>>>> > _mac_pro_11_21_20062007/>
>>>> > 
>>>> > (Those are all long one-line URLs; I'm not in the mood for tinyURLing 
>>>> > stuff this early saturday morn finishing off last night's wine; hell, 
>>>> > I'ma senior citizen now, do what-tae-fook I want)
>>>> 
>>>> no need to tinyurl them. 
>>>> 
>>>> the angle brackets delimit the url making it clickable (in the original
>>>> post), even though they span multiple lines. that's what the angle
>>>> brackets are for.
>>>
>>> They (brackets) don't always work for everyone. I don't have a problem 
>>> with them.
>>
>> They don't seem to work properly with slrn in Terminal; but I'm used to
>> it - no biggie.
>
> The nice thing about slrn here is that it puts what it thinks is the URL
> on the bottom line and you can edit it before hitting return. Thus for
> the above URLs it was simply a matter of using copy and paste to append
> the second line to the display then hitting return.

I also notice that right-clicking a URL in slrn in Terminal and choosing
Open URL fails in the same way. Also the highlighted URL omits the later
portion of the URL (the missing piece).

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