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Re: Mac IIci software

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From: Michael Dwyer
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 00:00
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Adam Carheden <carheden@holly.ColoState.EDU> wrote:
: I got a few versions of stuffit, but trying to open any of them on the
: mac brings up the "can't find the program that created this file"
: screen.  How do you tell mac to just run something as a binary (as I
: /though/ that's what I downloaded)?

Ummmm... chmod u+x?  Actually, I'm only half-joking.  

You tell Mac what type of file it is by setting the creator and file
type.  They are four-character strings.  One of the hfs tools may be
able to set these...  
<shrug> I dunno...

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From: Michael Dwyer <mdwyer@holly.ColoState.EDU>
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