I can read the file now. I brought it up because it seemed unnecessarily complicated to read a simple text file. Why not just rename COPYING.LESSER to "COPYING_LESSER.txt"? Or perhaps the name could be "GNU lesser general public license.txt"?
Sincerely, Jack Lambert Begin forwarded message: > From: Charlie Fenton <[email protected]> > Date: December 8, 2009 2:09:07 PM PST > To: [email protected] > Cc: Jack Lambert <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [boinc_dev] Some suggestions (UPS followup, Mac manager) > >> When i download boinc for the mac (6.10.21) it is a folder with several >> items in it other than the actual installer. "extras" as a folder contains >> COPYING, COPYING.LESSER, COPYRIGHT, and the uninstall boinc application. >> When you click on the item COPYING.LESSER it won't open because the OS >> apparently thinks the .lesser is a file extension. I could only read it in >> OS 10.6.2 after renaming it copying2.txt and ignoring the OS's warning >> window that came up (paraphrasing: are you sure you want to give it a >> different file extension?). > > When I double-click on COPYING.LESSER in OS 10.6.2, the OS asks me to choose > an application to open it, and I can then choose TextEdit. You can also drag > it on to the TextEdit icon in the Applications folder. _______________________________________________ boinc_dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev To unsubscribe, visit the above URL and (near bottom of page) enter your email address.
