<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div>Thanks for the report, katja.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489603468556_4548"><br></div><div>It looks like we can use 'plutil' instead.</div><div><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489603468556_4670">Does the manpage for 'plutil' in 10.8 include 'json' as a possible <br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489603468556_4671">format for the '-convert' flag?</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489603468556_4672"><br></div><div dir="ltr">-Jonathan<br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489603468556_4673"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489603468556_4617">On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 12:57 AM, Jonathan Wilkes <<a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:jancsika@yahoo.com" href="mailto:jancsika@yahoo.com">jancsika@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:</div><div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489603468556_3168" style="display: block;"><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489603468556_3167"><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489603468556_3166"><div class="y_msg_container" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489603468556_4291"><div class="yqt1206568364" id="yqtfd86698"><br clear="none">>> On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 2:22 PM, Jonathan Wilkes via Pd-list<br clear="none">><br clear="none">><br clear="none">> <<a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:pd-list@lists.iem.at" href="mailto:pd-list@lists.iem.at" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489603468556_4549">pd-list@lists.iem.at</a>> wrote:<br clear="none">>>> Hello list,<br clear="none">>>><br clear="none">>>> Can someone on OSX 10.8 please run the following command:<br clear="none">>>> defaults export /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/preferences -<br clear="none">><br clear="none">>> Trying this on OSX 10.8.5.<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> Just to be clear-- did you type the exact command I specified above? If<br clear="none">> so, what happened?</div><br clear="none"><br clear="none">With the command as you specify, but also with command 'defaults'<br clear="none">without argument, it responds with:<br clear="none"><br clear="none">"Command line interface to a user's defaults.<br clear="none">Syntax:<br clear="none">'defaults' [-currrentHost | -host <hostname>] followed by one of the following:<br clear="none">[...]"<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Then follows the list with command options (read, read-type, write,<br clear="none">rename, delete, domains, find) and explanations. In other words,<br clear="none">'defaults' without argument or with argument 'export' are not valid<br clear="none">options on this system (10.8.5). Compare the issue described here:<br clear="none"><br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="https://github.com/kcrawford/dockutil/issues/17" target="_blank">https://github.com/kcrawford/dockutil/issues/17</a><br clear="none"><br clear="none">Can you think of another approach to get what you want, that I can<br clear="none">test on 10.8.5?<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Katja<div class="yqt1206568364" id="yqtfd72663"><br clear="none"></div><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div></div></body></html>