For a Mac OS X system, you can obtain the script using the curl utility that is provided with the operating system. You can also use curl on a Linux system, if you have it installed on that system. Alternatively, you can use wget, which isn't provided with the OS X system, but which you may have on a Linux system, if you don't have curl available. To obtain the youtube-dl script using curl on a Mac OS X system, you can open a Terminal window and issue the command sudo curl -L https://yt-dl.org/downloads/latest/youtube-dl -o /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl. That will download the script and place it in the /usr/local/bin directory.

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1. Double-click on the message for which you wish to view the message header fields to open it in a separate window.
2. With the Message tab selected, you will see a column with the following items:
   • Mark Unread
   • Categorize
   • Follow Up

   Beneath those items, you will see "Tags". Click on the diagonally, downard-pointing arrow to the right of "Tags".

   

   You will then see a Properties window with an "Internet headers" section where you will see the message header that will show you the return-path, the email servers the message has passed through, etc.

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DLNA provides a standard for sharing digital media among multimedia devices and Vuze can be used to stream audio and video from a computer to a device that supports the DLNA standard, e.g., a input device for a television (TV).

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If you don't have a signing certificate installed for the account from which you are sending the email, though, when you click on Send, you will see the message "You must first install a valid signing certificate before you can send a digitally signed message. Do you want to send this message without a digital signature?"

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The crash report showed an exception type of "EXC_CRASH (SIGABRT)" and "Application Specific Information" was "[50842] stack overflow".

If I tried opening the workbook with the Apache OpenOffice 4.1.2 on the same system, it displayed "Loading..." and then seemed to get stuck there. However, when I returned to the system about 15 minutes later, the spreadsheet I needed to access was open within the OpenOffice Calc application. All of the sheets within the workbook were accessible and I clicked on File, then chose Save and then saved the file with the default file type of "ODF Spreadsheet (.ods)", so that I would have a readable copy of my data that I could at least open with OpenOffice. I then clicked on File again and this time chose Save As and used a file type of "Microsoft Excel 2003 XML (.xml)". I received a warning that "This document may contain formatting or content that cannot be saved in the Microsoft Excel 2003 XML file format. Do you want to save the document in this format anyway?" I chose "Keep Current Format" to save the spreadsheet in the .xml format.

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The software can be obtained using the Mac App Store application on OS X systems. The current cost is $4.99 USD.

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There are different algorithms that can be used for storing files within a zip file that determine the level of compression and speed of production of a zip file. If you are using a Linux or Apple OS X system, you can see choices that are available for compressing files and directories into a zip file from the command line, e.g. from a Terminal window on an OS X system, by looking at the man page for the zip program by issuing the command man zip.

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#!/usr/bin/python

# Name: zipdir.py
# Version: 1.0
# Created: 2016-11-13
# Last modified: 2016-11-13
# Purpose: Creates a zip file given a directory where the files to be zipped
# are stored and the name of the output file. Don't include the .zip extension
# when specifying the zip file name.
# Usage: zipdir.py output_filename dir_name
# Note: if the output file name and directory are not specified on the 
# command line, the script will prompt for them.

import sys, shutil

if len(sys.argv) == 1:
   dir_name = raw_input("Directory name: ")
   output_filename = raw_input("Zip file name: ")
elif len(sys.argv) == 3:
   output_filename = sys.argv[1]
   dir_name = sys.argv[2]
else:
   print "Incorrect number of arguments! Usage: zipdir.py output_filename dir_name"
   exit()

shutil.make_archive(output_filename, 'zip', dir_name)

The script takes two arguments: the output file name and the directory to be compressed. The .zip extension should not be included with the output file name; it will automatically be appended to the output file name. If no arguments are specified on the command line, the script will prompt for them. E.g., if I wanted to create a zip file named test.zip from the contents of the folder Example, I could use the command python zipdir.py test Example or, if the zipdir.py script is made executable on a Linux or Apple OS X system with chmod u+x zipdir.py, then ./zipdir.py test Example can be used.

zipdir.py

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