From: John Joyce <dangerwillrobinsondanger@...>
Date: 2007-07-13T02:47:36+09:00
Subject: Re: god 0.1.0 released


On Jul 12, 2007, at 2:05 AM, poopdeville@gmail.com wrote:

> On Jul 9, 11:49 pm, John Joyce <dangerwillrobinsondan...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> <snip>
>> Hey Apple has had a system command 'bless' for decades!
>> In the old Mac OS (pre OS X) it was a common troubleshooting activity
>> to 'bless the system folder' !
>
> OS X still has a 'bless' command.  From the man page:
>
> NAME
>      bless -- set volume bootability and startup disk options
>
> DESCRIPTION
>      bless is used to modify the volume bootability characteristics of
>      filesystems, as well as select the active boot volume.  bless has
> 5 modes
>      of execution: Folder Mode, Mount Mode, Device Mode, NetBoot Mode,
> and
>      Info Mode.
> ...
>
> Perl has a bless subroutine, which is used to turn references to
> hashes into objects.
>
> -Alex
>
>
the grammar 'has had' implies that it had in the past, up to now, and  
does not say it ended.
So I said this. I know they kept the command name around.
The old bless was a bit different though. It was used on the system  
folder on the old mac os.