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Binhex - Making downloaded file executable

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From: Charles R Berg
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 1989 16:39
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Here's another question from a novice user.  (In the beginning, everyone was
a novice, weren't they?)

No, that wasn't my question.

I find this great file, MacCompress in comp.binaries.mac.  So, I save it into
a file on my Sun, edit out the header info, use Kermit to transfer it to my
Mac, and run BinHex to convert from download to application.

But, what I have now is a 'document' that when I attempt to execute, produces
the old standard message about not finding the application necessary to open
it.

Now comes THE QUESTION. What step am I missing and/or doing wrong?

Thanks in advance for any help.

Chuck
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From: cberg@leadsv.UUCP (Charles R Berg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Binhex - Making downloaded file executable
Message-ID: <7146@leadsv.UUCP>
Date: 24 Jul 89 16:39:24 GMT
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Organization: LMSC-LEADS, Sunnyvale, Ca.
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