Excellent, Al. This is what I've known all along. Simple is good.  :-)

recently, Al Shep inscribed:

> OK people
> 
> *.dmg files are Disk Image Files. They are Disk Image
> files made by OS X. They are not the same as Disk
> Image files made by OS 9 and earlier's Disk Copy.
> 
> If you download a *.dmg file for use in OS or earlier,
> you have downloaded the wrong file. It is simple. If
> your download ends in .exe or .dmg, then you have
> downloaded the wrong file for a pre-OS X Mac OS. The
> solution, simply go back and get the correct file. If
> you can't find it, realize that many companies no
> longer support OS 9 or earlier, especially Apple
> Computer Corp.
> 
> By the way, other UNIXs use the ".dmg" like formatts
> as well. Now if you  see a .tar file . . .


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