Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Jim Janney Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: 1Password was installed in ~/Applications Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2013 20:25:27 -0600 Organization: barbary apes wrecking a boudoir Lines: 57 Message-ID: References: <5pSdnRWB7IUoqtbPnZ2dnUVZ_smdnZ2d@giganews.com> <011020131708577492%nospam@nospam.invalid> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Injection-Info: mx05.eternal-september.org; posting-host="c75a2e3068ccf6c98395286f3e40b97d"; logging-data="18644"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19mBBlkuY/E/tx70kS/SLSv" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:+FVmVIlN+zWkxsXoLyd7mi7uCLE= sha1:YmXj37at+RPrqJFtPSX64+ZOcS8= Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.system:49277 Barry Margolin writes: > In article , > Jim Janney wrote: > >> nospam writes: >> >> > In article <5pSdnRWB7IUoqtbPnZ2dnUVZ_smdnZ2d@giganews.com>, Alan Browne >> > 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