Copying OS X apps

2002-10-29 Thread J. Landman Gay
Has anyone figured out how to copy a Mac OS X application? The usual way, copying the data fork and the resource fork, doesn't seem to work. Actually, they don't even have resource forks. The bundle structure seems to be the culprit. I tried copying each of these:

Re: Copying OS X apps

2002-10-29 Thread Pierre Sahores
J. Landman Gay a écrit : Has anyone figured out how to copy a Mac OS X application? The usual way, copying the data fork and the resource fork, doesn't seem to work. Actually, they don't even have resource forks. The bundle structure seems to be the culprit. I tried copying each of these:

Re: Copying OS X apps

2002-10-29 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 10/29/02 4:51 PM, Pierre Sahores wrote: Did you try this in a terminal ? cp -R /theselectedpath/Ressources/ /thedestinationpath/Ressources/ -R is the recursive option. Sorry, I should have been more clear. I need to copy the application in a script. For most files, I can use: put url

Re: Copying OS X apps

2002-10-29 Thread Ken Ray
PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2002 4:31 PM Subject: Copying OS X apps Has anyone figured out how to copy a Mac OS X application? The usual way, copying the data fork and the resource fork, doesn't seem to work. Actually, they don't even have resource forks. The bundle structure seems

Re: Copying OS X apps

2002-10-29 Thread Ken Ray
PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2002 4:51 PM Subject: Re: Copying OS X apps J. Landman Gay a écrit : Has anyone figured out how to copy a Mac OS X application? The usual way, copying the data fork and the resource fork, doesn't seem to work. Actually, they don't even have resource forks

Re: Copying OS X apps

2002-10-29 Thread J. Landman Gay
you need to use applescript (and don't forget about use colon-delimited paths). Thanks Ken, that helps a lot -- and I would have forgotten about the colons if you hadn't mentioned it. Just knowing I need to use AppleScript saved me hours. I haven't tried it in MetaCard yet, but in the Script

Re: Copying OS X apps

2002-10-29 Thread Ken Ray
Message - From: J. Landman Gay [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2002 9:04 PM Subject: Re: Copying OS X apps you need to use applescript (and don't forget about use colon-delimited paths). Thanks Ken, that helps a lot -- and I would have forgotten about