On Tuesday, July 24, 2001, at 04:08 PM, Andrew C. Rempt wrote:
> Hello again,
>
> I hate to be a continual pest, but I am still so wet behind my little
> green ears . . .
>
> I've been 100% successful in establishing connections between my new
> 130 and my desktop G4, but I am now having problems installing
> packages. It seems that some of the packages I have downloaded,
> including buttons for the very cool Tap Bar, don't appear on the list
> when I choose "install packages" from the menu. I can navigate all
> around my G4, but no matter where I put those packages, they fail to
> show up on the list.
>
> I have downloaded packages in package form as well as zip files and
> sit files, and they are all unpacked and in their folders. What am I
> missing here?
This is a fairly common error. As you may or may not know, on a
Macintosh, files have an invisible file type and a file creator. When
you get files from a ZIP archive that was most likely created on a PC,
the files in the archive don't have this file type and creator
information.
There is a package from Steve Weyer that will fix this. You just drag
the file onto Steve's application, and the file type and creator will be
fixed.
I'm pretty sure that the packages don't display the usual icon for
Newton packages...
-Laurent.
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