Re: [NTLK] Help with Error

From: Laurent Daudelin (laurent.daudelin_at_verizon.net)
Date: Mon Mar 03 2003 - 20:12:19 PST

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on 03/03/03 20:58, Gene Martin at GeneMartin_at_mac.com wrote:
[snip!]
> 2) I am trying to download a copy of NewtJabber. When I get the packages
> downloaded to my desktop, I then try to install them but the Newton cannot
> see the file to install them. However, the files are there on my Macs
> desktop. Any ideas as to why it can't see these files?
[snip!]

This one is an easy one: on the Mac, files have a hidden information called
the file type and the file creator. That's the information that the Finder
uses when you double-click a file to open the application that created that
file. In your case, the files that you have downloaded have lost this
information. Use a program called "PackType" to restore the information
simply by dragging and dropping those files onto the application and all
should be well...

-Laurent.

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