At 8:20 AM -0700 6/6/2001, Sadhunathan Nadesan wrote:
>Question from an Apple newbie,
>
>What should I do to prepare an MC MAC 'stand alone' for distribution?
>Does it need to be 'stuffit-ed' ? I built a stand alone on my mac laptop,
>put it on the web, but when I download it with IE to another mac, that
>mac thinks its a text file, not an executable.
Mac files are more complex in internal structure than PC/Unix files (they
can have - and applications always do have - a resource fork in addition to
the data fork, and they also have metadata that holds the file type and
other info).
Uploading a Mac file to a Unix or Windows machine will result in either
stripping the resource fork and metadata, or encoding it in Binhex format,
depending on how you uploaded it. If it's encoded so the data is still
there, adding a ".bin" suffix generally will get Mac programs to recognize
the format and decode it into an application again.
The safest option probably is to StuffIt the file before uploading. This
also gets you compression -> speedier download time.
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