<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">They are also invisible to ls too, unless you run it as ls -a. As the command "file `which tar`" was run in Terminal.app it’s appropriate to continue working in it.<div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Sep 2, 2015, at 12:14, Herb Schulz <<a href="mailto:herbs@wideopenwest.com" class="">herbs@wideopenwest.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" class=""><div dir="auto" class=""><div class="">Howdy,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Those files are in you HOME folder but are invisible in Finder by default because their names start with a period. You need to do this in Terminal or change the Finder preferences to show hidden files. <br class=""><br class="">Good Luck,<div class="">Herb Schulz</div></div><div class=""><br class="">On Sep 2, 2015, at 11:07 AM, Ettore Aldrovandi <<a href="mailto:ealdrov@mail.math.fsu.edu" class="">ealdrov@mail.math.fsu.edu</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class=""></div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8" class="">Fink is clobbering your shell startup files. You seem to be using bash: remove or rename the following files<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">.bash_profile</div><div class="">.bashrc</div><div class="">.profile (if you have it)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">logout and login again, or Quit and reopen Terminal.app. That should give you a saner path. Please post the result of </div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>echo $PATH</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Let’s see if that helps. (The next step would be to blast the whole Fink tree.)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">—Ettore</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Sep 2, 2015, at 11:42, John Burt <<a href="mailto:burt@brandeis.edu" class="">burt@brandeis.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px" class="">Howdy,</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px" class=""><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px" class=""><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px" class="">I assume that you used Migration Assistant when you got the new MacBook Pro. How long ago was the Fink distribution installed? Please run</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px" class=""><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px" class=""><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px" class="">file `which tar`</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px" class=""><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px" class=""><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px" class="">and see if it can even be executed under Yosemite.</span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Menlo;" class="">/sw/bin/tar: Mach-O executable ppc</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Menlo;" class="">and yes, it does work when I test it.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Menlo;" class="">thanks for all this help!</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Menlo;" class="">John</div></div>
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