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 14:06 -0600
Organization	seizing the weird inveigle
Message-ID	<ydnzjqrjv4c.fsf@shell.xmission.com> (permalink)
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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. 
>
> 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.

-- 
Jim Janney

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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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