In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Marcus
Silva wrote:
> Has anyone tried grabbing, for example, the Amazon Sherlock
>plug-in and using it with Mozilla, as a Search plug-in? I can only find
>those binary files for Sherlock, but I have no idea how to get the text
>based *.src file that Mozilla expects ...
>
> Anyone else out there has tried and been sucessfull getting a
>Sherlock plug-in to work with MOzilla?
Many times. The main fly in the ointment is the Macintosh's habit of storing
each file as two "forks", the data fork and the resource fork, unlike every
other computer in the history of the world. This means that when transmitting
files to each other through a non-Macintosh medium (say, the Internet) the data
and resource forks must be globbed together in one big lump which is unpacked
by the Macintosh at the other end.
In case you want the details, the text of the Sherlock plugin is stored in the
"data" fork.
I don't know how you'd go about unpacking such a file under Windows, but here
in Linux land I have such useful utilities as "hexbin" and "macunpack" which
make the process simple.
Some terminology: Macintosh files are usually wrapped up in one or more of the
following formats: "macbinary", "binhex", and "stuffit". Searching for some of
these terms, along with "decode", at a search engine such as Google may well
prove to be productive.
Tim Allen,
...who used Google's provided sherlock plugin until one shipped with Moz by default.
