Linked List: September 27, 2004

Monday, 27 September 2004

Preferential Treatment is a donation-ware app by Jonathan Nathan; it’s a simple wrapper around the plutil command linked a few items ago. Preferential Treatment is specifically designed to look for corrupt preference files; unlike the plutil tool, which can check any plist files.

(Via Brian Christiansen, via email.)

Mailsmith 2.1.4 ★

Small bug-fix update.

plutil ★

plutil is a Mac OS X command-line tool that lets you syntax-check plist files. Could be used to check for corrupt preference files (as in the linked-to article at Mac OS X Hints); I’ve been using it to syntax-check my Codeless Language Modules for BBEdit. (I’d previously been using xmllint for the same purpose.)