On Saturday, May 11, 2002, at 10:35 AM, Phil Beynon wrote:
Does the Mac have an equivalent of the Windows hosts file please, I'm utterly illiterate on them and I need to have a customer see a site on the Raq prior to it going live via DNS etc.
MacOS X has an /etc/hosts file like any other *nix system. Open a terminal window, cd /etc, edit hosts, just like on the Cobalt. (Or do it through the GUI and use BBEdit or TextEdit.)
OS 9.x allows one to set a hosts file through the TCP/IP control panel. It needs to be "correctly formatted" but it's not clear what "correctly formatted" means; there are no examples and very little documentation. The control panel needs to be at the "Advanced" user setting to show the hosts-file selection option.
pjm