Re: 1Password was installed in ~/Applications

From	Jim Janney <jjanney@shell.xmission.com>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.system
Subject	Re: 1Password was installed in ~/Applications
Date	2013-10-02 20:25 -0600
Organization	barbary apes wrecking a boudoir
Message-ID	<ydnvc1fjdk8.fsf@shell.xmission.com> (permalink)
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Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> writes:

> In article <ydnzjqrjv4c.fsf@shell.xmission.com>,
>  Jim Janney <jjanney@shell.xmission.com> wrote:
>
>> nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> writes:
>> 
>> > In article <5pSdnRWB7IUoqtbPnZ2dnUVZ_smdnZ2d@giganews.com>, Alan Browne
>> > <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> wrote:
>> >
>> >> >>>> As I'm auditing my iMac before transfer to a new machine I notice that
>> >> >>>> 1Password is not installed in the system apps folder but in the user
>> >> >>>> Apps folder ~/Applications
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>> How are people getting a user ~/Applications folder on their system?
>> >> >>
>> >> >> It's been a key location in UNIX since pretty much the start.
>> >> >
>> >> > OS X, maybe, but definitely not Unix in general.
>> >> 
>> >> Maybe with a different name - but seems to have always been a standard 
>> >> in UNIX.
>> >> 
>> >> I recall back in the 80's coaching an engineer writing a thermal sim and 
>> >> the admin on that system (UX) pointed us to or set us up with 
>> >> object/executable being written to a folder in the user's directory 
>> >> structure (whether it was called /Applications or somthing else, I don't 
>> >> recall).
>> >
>> > ~/bin, which also exists on os x and would be where a command line tool
>> > might go. 
>
> I'm pretty sure nothing automatically creates ~/bin on OS X. I remember 
> creating one for myself ages ago, but I just checked a vanilla account 
> and it doesn't have one. And ~/bin isn't in the default PATH environment 
> variable, I add it in my .bashrc.
>
> That other account also doesn't have ~/Applications.
>
>> >
>> > os x also has the usual unix bin directories, /bin and /usr/bin.
>> 
>> When I was using BSD Unix on a VAX, ~/bin was where I would put any
>> little scripts and customizations I liked to use.  Not too many, though,
>> because I'd lose them at the end of the semester.
>> 
>> File names were limited to 14 characters and by convention were rarely
>> capitalized.
>
> IIRC, BSD removed the 14-character limitation that was in AT&T Unix at 
> the time.

Eventually yes, but I think not in 4.1.  But file names were still
something you typed, so there was an incentive to keep them short.

-- 
Jim Janney

Thread

1Password was installed in ~/Applications Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2013-09-26 16:58 -0400
  Re: 1Password was installed in ~/Applications dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2013-09-27 09:35 +1200
    Re: 1Password was installed in ~/Applications Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2013-09-26 17:50 -0400
      Re: 1Password was installed in ~/Applications Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2013-09-30 17:04 +0200
        Re: 1Password was installed in ~/Applications Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2013-09-30 19:34 -0400
  Re: 1Password was installed in ~/Applications Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2013-09-26 15:20 -0700
    Re: 1Password was installed in ~/Applications Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2013-09-26 18:51 -0400
  Re: 1Password was installed in ~/Applications dcohenspam@talktalk.net (Daniel Cohen) - 2013-09-27 07:28 +0100
    Re: 1Password was installed in ~/Applications Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2013-09-28 07:44 -0400
      Re: 1Password was installed in ~/Applications dcohenspam@talktalk.net (Daniel Cohen) - 2013-09-29 00:58 +0100
        Re: 1Password was installed in ~/Applications Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2013-09-28 20:11 -0400
        Re: 1Password was installed in ~/Applications Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2013-10-06 18:51 -0400
  Re: 1Password was installed in ~/Applications me@home.spamsucks.ca (Király) - 2013-09-30 21:47 +0000
    Re: 1Password was installed in ~/Applications nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2013-09-30 18:22 -0400
    Re: 1Password was installed in ~/Applications Tom Stiller <tom_stiller@yahoo.com> - 2013-09-30 19:23 -0400
    Re: 1Password was installed in ~/Applications Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2013-09-30 19:30 -0400
      Re: 1Password was installed in ~/Applications Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2013-09-30 20:31 -0400
        Re: 1Password was installed in ~/Applications me@home.spamsucks.ca (Király) - 2013-10-01 01:49 +0000
          Re: 1Password was installed in ~/Applications Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2013-10-01 12:55 +0200
            Re: 1Password was installed in ~/Applications Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2013-10-01 11:12 -0400
              Re: 1Password was installed in ~/Applications Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2013-10-01 17:44 +0200
                Re: 1Password was installed in ~/Applications Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2013-10-01 11:36 -0700
                Re: 1Password was installed in ~/Applications Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2013-10-01 17:16 -0400
                Re: 1Password was installed in ~/Applications Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2013-10-01 15:47 -0700
                Re: 1Password was installed in ~/Applications Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2013-10-07 18:41 +0200
                Re: 1Password was installed in ~/Applications Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2013-10-07 13:30 -0700
                Re: 1Password was installed in ~/Applications Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2013-10-07 16:48 -0400
                Re: 1Password was installed in ~/Applications Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2013-10-08 06:59 +0200
                Re: 1Password was installed in ~/Applications Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2013-10-08 07:20 -0700
                Re: 1Password was installed in ~/Applications Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2013-10-08 16:25 -0400
                Re: 1Password was installed in ~/Applications Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2013-10-08 16:20 -0700
                Re: 1Password was installed in ~/Applications George Kerby <ghost_topper@hotmail.com> - 2013-10-08 19:00 -0500
                Re: 1Password was installed in ~/Applications Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2013-10-08 20:48 -0700
                Re: 1Password was installed in ~/Applications Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2013-10-10 16:35 +0200
                Re: 1Password was installed in ~/Applications Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2013-10-08 20:33 -0400
                Re: 1Password was installed in ~/Applications Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2013-10-10 16:10 +0200
              Re: 1Password was installed in ~/Applications Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2013-10-01 19:14 +0000
          Re: 1Password was installed in ~/Applications Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2013-10-01 16:54 -0400
        Re: 1Password was installed in ~/Applications Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2013-10-01 12:49 +0200
        Re: 1Password was installed in ~/Applications Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2013-10-01 16:59 -0400
          Re: 1Password was installed in ~/Applications nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2013-10-01 17:08 -0400
            Re: 1Password was installed in ~/Applications Jim Janney <jjanney@shell.xmission.com> - 2013-10-02 14:06 -0600
              Re: 1Password was installed in ~/Applications Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2013-10-02 19:58 -0400
                Re: 1Password was installed in ~/Applications Jim Janney <jjanney@shell.xmission.com> - 2013-10-02 20:25 -0600
                Re: 1Password was installed in ~/Applications Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2013-10-08 06:57 +0200
                Re: 1Password was installed in ~/Applications nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2013-10-02 23:06 -0400

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