A question about Localhost with Safari

[Justin C. Walker]

On Jan 4, 2015, at 16:27 , Brandon Allbery wrote:

> On Sun, Jan 4, 2015 at 7:08 PM, Justin C. Walker <justin at mac.com> wrote:
> 
>> To answer another question from earlier in the thread, I believe the
>> "database" used by Mac OS X during the early years was a hold-over from
>> NeXT days (netinfo?).  I think it was essentially gone by the time 10.6 was
>> released.
>> 
> 
> Incorrect; it just changed form. Netinfo is indeed gone, but instead we
> have DirectoryServices and dscl.

'it' was netinfo (the nearest antecedent) :-}

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