[cobalt-users] MacOS 9 Hosts File

["Dave Emmons" <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Message: 12
Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 09:17:13 -0400
Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] Hosts file on a Mac
From: Parker Morse <morse@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Reply-To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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.
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See http://www.techtv.com/screensavers/print/0,23102,3302404,00.html 
for details on creating a MacOS 9 hosts file.

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