[OS X TeX] Snow Leopard and locator

[Herbert Schulz]

On Sep 8, 2009, at 8:53 AM, David Watson wrote:

> On Sep 8, 2009, at 6:17 AM, Herbert Schulz wrote:
>>
>> By the way... the search is very fast and I've been using it rather  
>> than Locate (which takes a long time to open on Intel systems since  
>> Rosetta has to load) and having to rebuild the database.
>>
>
> That is strange, as my SL "locate" supports multiple architectures:
> file /usr/bin/locate
> /usr/bin/locate: Mach-O universal binary with 3 architectures
> /usr/bin/locate (for architecture x86_64):	Mach-O 64-bit executable  
> x86_64
> /usr/bin/locate (for architecture i386):	Mach-O executable i386
> /usr/bin/locate (for architecture ppc7400):	Mach-O executable ppc
>
> And as far as the other related programs in /usr/libexec:
> /usr/libexec/locate.bigram: Mach-O universal binary with 3  
> architectures
> /usr/libexec/locate.bigram (for architecture x86_64):	Mach-O 64-bit  
> executable x86_64
> /usr/libexec/locate.bigram (for architecture i386):	Mach-O  
> executable i386
> /usr/libexec/locate.bigram (for architecture ppc7400):	Mach-O  
> executable ppc
> /usr/libexec/locate.code: Mach-O universal binary with 3 architectures
> /usr/libexec/locate.code (for architecture x86_64):	Mach-O 64-bit  
> executable x86_64
> /usr/libexec/locate.code (for architecture i386):	Mach-O executable  
> i386
> /usr/libexec/locate.code (for architecture ppc7400):	Mach-O  
> executable ppc
> /usr/libexec/locate.concatdb: POSIX shell script text executable
> /usr/libexec/locate.mklocatedb: POSIX shell script text executable
> /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb: POSIX shell script text executable
>

Howdy,

Sorry... I didn't mean locate but the front end Locator.app which is  
PPC and hasn't been updated since 2002.

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)