> Instead, safe to disk and use > "Open with..." from the context menu
How's that? Sorry. I get parts of what you say here, Andreas, but until I get the language it's going to be a bit of a slog... Thanks or the detail. I'm supposing it;'s the explanaiton of "Safe" dl files assumed.. or NOT.. if one were attentive to a few details D^ > > > > P!^VP 0!Z!^VP wrote: >> >> Safari can?t open the file ?scribus-1-4.3.3.8.tar.bz2.sig? because no >> available application can open it." >> > > This file with ending ".sig" contains a digital signature which can be > used > to check the binary file you downloaded, in this case > "scribus-1-4.3.3.8.tar.bz2". You can open the .sig file with TextEdit > and > lots of other programs, but no program told OSX that it's keen on > opening > .sig files, so a doubleclick will not work. Instead, safe to disk and > use > "Open with..." from the context menu. While you are at it you can > check the > box "Always open these with ...", so the next time a doubleclick on a > .sig > file will open TextEdit (or whatever you choose). > > The idea behind all this is that you download some valueable data > (scribus-1-4.3.3.8.tar.bz2) and want to check that it's not corrupted. > There > are several ways to generate a signature (that's some short text of > seemingly random chars and numbers) for this binary data, eg. SHA and > MD5. > So you download the binary data, generate the signature locally with an > appropiate commmandline tool, and compare it to the signature posted > on the > side where you downloaded the data. > > Or you feel careless and optimistic and skip the whole signature part. > :-) > > Files with ending ".tar.bz2" can be unpacked with StuffIt Expander. In > fact > this is a two-step procedure: first it is uncompressed using the BZIP2 > method to get a (large) file with ending ".tar", then all files in that > ".tar" file are extracted and placed in a folder. Unfortunately this > large > ".tar" file stays lying around when you use StuffIt Expander, so you > might > want to trash it manually after unpacking. > > Btw, scribus-1.3.3.8.tar.bz2 contains the Scribus sourcecode. You > probably > want ScribusAqua-1.3.3.8.tar.bz2, which unpacks into an application > bundle > named "Scribus.app". > > HTH > /Andreas > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/This-error-message...-and-introductory-post- > tf3568561.html#a9970594 > Sent from the Scribus mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > _______________________________________________ > Scribus mailing list > Scribus at nashi.altmuehlnet.de > http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/mailman/listinfo/scribus > P!^VP -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/enriched Size: 2671 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20070413/2601b6c1/attachment.bin
