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Originally read "BOM (Bill of Materials)" and thought it was a misattribution of the more common "Byte Order Marker" acronym common to file format headers, but

Originally read "BOM (Bill of Materials)" and thought it was a misattribution of the more common "Byte Order Marker" acronym common to file format headers, but websurfing reveals it's correct -- referring to this format's origin in Installers, haha.

lelandfe 8mo ago
$ man bom > bom – bill of materials [..] > HISTORY > The bill of materials file appeared in NeXTSTEP to support installation. The file format was updated and extended for Mac OS X 10.0. The format was extended to support 64 bit file sizes with OS X 10.3.
- mwkaufma 8mo ago
  orly $ man bom No manual entry for bom
  - lelandfe 8mo ago
    rly. Ran on two different Macs. Works up to Tahoe 26.2. Maybe depends on developer tools installed?
    - mwkaufma 8mo ago
      Is the feedback that instead of a short web search, I could "simply" have checked the man page on a different computer, after confirming dev tools are installed?
      - lelandfe 8mo ago
        What a place HN is that this is the default assumption of intent, lol
        mwkaufma 8mo ago
        But like, you knew you were being a bit of a smart aleck in your first reply. I was just matching snark-for-snark ;)