Re: [NTLK] installing packages help, please

From: James Elliott (rootbeeraddict_at_yahoo.com)
Date: Wed Jul 25 2001 - 10:20:12 EDT


"Andrew C. Rempt" <acrempt_at_pacbell.net> 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?
>
>As always, thanks for the help.
>
>AC Rempt

I always use Creator Changer when I encounter this. I
change the creator of each package to "1NCU" (Newton
Connection Utilities) and then the type to "pkg ".
You have to include the space after the g though
because the type has to be four characters.

-James Elliott

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