Re: problem while moving HOME from FreeBSD to MacOS with bsdtar

Doug, hello.

On 9 Mar 2023, at 15:55, doug@safeport.com wrote:

> My experience is that using
>  xterm with tcsh I can ssh into the Mac and pretty much do anything I need
>  to do with my userid on the Mac.

Yup -- my impression is that Apple don't support headless macOS as such, but that you can pretty much look after a macOS box that way.

> On the Mac the file system names are case
>  sensitive with liberal use of blanks.

Are you sure, in a standard install?   On my machine

% ls /uSeRs
Shared/	norman/

so that's case-insensitive.  Of course tab-completion won't work in the shell, if you don't start the filename with its 'correct' case.  Thus /u<tab> won't work, only /U<tab>, but that's different.

> In my experience I have seen no
>  difference between Mac tar and FreeBSD.

Indeed.  My understanding is that the macOS userland is very heavily based on the FreeBSD userland, with judicious exceptions so that, for example, 'make' is GNU make, rather than pmake.  Also that significant parts of the Darwin kernel overlap with the FreeBSD one.  But although I've seen various remarks on-list that 'yes, Apple and the FreeBSD project are friends', I've never been able to find a document which discusses the relationship -- project and code -- in any detail.

Best wishes,

Norman


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