Odds and Ends: Palm Multiple Partition Fix; DeltaGraph OS

X Plans; Installing Perl on Jaguar

Palm multiple partition fix James Reed offers a simple workaround to Palm Desktop's previously reported inability to properly handle multiple drive partitions:

"The directory properties can be changed using NetInfo Manager quite easily and the User folder copied using ditto in the terminal.

1. Copy your User folder to the 'new' location in the terminal with ditto:
2. sudo ditto -rsrc /Users/Volumes/partition name here/Users
3. Ditto preserves all file attributes - owner, permissions, date and time etc.
4. Open NetInfo Manager, log in to allow changes.Edit under Property - home the item in the value (s) column to reflect the new directory path e.g. /Volumes/New partition name/Users/User name
   
5. This needs to be done for each User if you've got a multi User system. I also created a "safe" User I leave in the original site for safety purpose.
6. Delete the original User directory.

DeltaGraph OS X Plans Rene Borgolla received the following response from SPSS Inc. after inquiring about a Mac OS X version of DeltaGraph:

"We are currently evaluating the cost and market demand for a future version of DeltaGraph for Mac OS X."

SPSS is currently developing a Mac OS X release of its flagship product, SPSS 11.0, due for release "in the next few months."

Installing Perl on Jaguar Apple has posted a tutorial for installing Perl 5.8 under Jaguar (the included version is 5.6) to its Developer Web site:

"The integrated Address Book, improved Mail, System Preference tweaks—all good things. But what really excited me was the new stuff under the hood: bash, Python, gcc 3, Ruby. And what about my beloved Perl? Did they upgrade to version 5.6.1 or, better yet, get 5.8.0 installed in time? A quick trip to the Terminal window gave me the answer: This is perl, v5.6.0 built for darwin. Too bad. But there is, as always, a workaround. If you're looking to get the latest and greatest version of Perl up and running on Jaguar, I'm here to tell you how." More.