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Re: [cobalt-users] Hosts file on a Mac
- Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] Hosts file on a Mac
- From: Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed May 15 11:50:57 2002
- Organization: nobaloney.net
- List-id: Mailing list for users to share thoughts on Cobalt products. <cobalt-users.list.cobalt.com>
Parker Morse wrote:
> 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.
According to a Mac-user friend, correctly formatted means the same on
the Mac as on a Windows or Linux machine; the format is the same. So
I'd copy over the /etc/hosts to the Mac (be sure to copy it as an ascii
file), and start with that.
Jeff
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