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The graphical user interface for Mac OS X.
A file in an installer package used by the Installer to determine which files to install, remove, or upgrade. It contains all the files within a directory, along with information about each file such as the file's permissions, its owner and group, size, its time of last modification, a checksum for each file, and information about hard links.
A directory in the file system that stores executable code and the software resources related to that code. Applications, plug-ins, and frameworks are types of bundles. Except for frameworks, bundles are file packages, presented by the Finder as a single file.
An application environment for Mac OS X that features a set of programming interfaces derived from earlier versions of the Mac OS. The Carbon API has been modified to work properly with Mac OS X, especially with the foundation of the operating system, the kernel environment. Carbon applications can run in Mac OS X, Mac OS 9, and all versions of Mac OS 8 later than Mac OS 8.1.
An application environment for Mac OS X that lets you run non-Carbon legacy Mac OS software. It supports programs built for both Power PC and 68K chip architectures and is fully integrated with the Finder and the other application environments.
An advanced object-oriented development platform for Mac OS X. Cocoa is a set of frameworks with programming interfaces in both Java and Objective-C. It is based on the integration of OPENSTEP, Apple technologies, and Java.
Another name for the core of the Mac OS X operating system. The Darwin kernel is equivalent to the Mac OS X kernel plus the BSD libraries and commands essential to the BSD command-line environment. Darwin is open source technology.
A Mac OS X disk image file.
The system application that acts as the primary user interface for file-system interaction.
The Mac OS Standard file-system format, used to represent a collection of files as a hierarchy of directories (folders), each of which may contain either files or folders themselves. HFS is a two-fork volume format.
The Mac OS Extended file-system format. This file-system format was introduced as part of Mac OS 8.1, adding support for filenames longer than 31 characters, Unicode representation of file and directory names, and efficient operation on very large disks. HFS+ is a multiple-fork volume format.
The executable format of Mach object files. This is the default executable format in Mac OS X.
The network administrative information database and information retrieval system for Mac OS X. Many Mac OS X services consult the NetInfo database for their configuration information.
An XML archive that describes the user interface of applications built with Interface Builder.
.pkg file A Mac OS X Installer file. May be grouped together into a metapackage (.mpkg).
See property list.
A structured, textual representation of data that uses the Extensible Markup Language (XML) as the structuring medium. Elements of a property list represent data of certain types, such as arrays, dictionaries, and strings.
Apple’s graphical integrated development environment. It is available free with the Mac OS X Developer Tools package.
The Mac OS X kernel. The acronym stands for X is Not Unix. XNU combines the functionality of Mach and BSD with the I/O Kit, the driver model for Mac OS X.
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Mac OS X Reference Library Cross Platform: UNIX Porting UNIX/Linux Applications to Mac OS X