Re: Cross platform trouble - follow up

2001-01-29 Thread Jakob Hede Madsen
At 17:50 -0500 01_01_29, Lists wrote: >On 1/29/01 1:07 PM, Karina Steffens ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) sent: > >>The only thing is, I need to be able to work >>with the files (such as put them in the right folder), and I obviously can't >>do that while they're compressed. Does uncompressing the files on t

Re: Cross platform trouble - follow up

2001-01-29 Thread Lists
On 1/29/01 1:07 PM, Karina Steffens ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) sent: >The only thing is, I need to be able to work >with the files (such as put them in the right folder), and I obviously can't >do that while they're compressed. Does uncompressing the files on the pc >actually retain resource forks and

Re: Cross platform trouble - follow up

2001-01-29 Thread Tab Julius
Hi Karina, It's not really a Lingo question, but... Mac files have two things that don't port well to the PC. The first is the Type/Creator attribute. Since Macs don't usually use extensions (like .EXE) to say what the file is, they instead use a type/creator pair. Losing the type/creator

Cross platform trouble - follow up

2001-01-29 Thread Karina Steffens
Thaks to everyone who replied to my question. (re: mac executables becoming unusable after being moved accross a network using a pc). I aposigise that it took me so long to reply/follow up: Some new projects came up and I got side tracked I did try most of the suggestions, but couldn't get t