a stick of bother.

wild_eyed

im using 8.6 os and im new to the mac thang. i downloaded a few applications for a mac on my home windows machine, and burned them to cd. so i cud install them on the mac, problem is , they just appear as document type files and not install programs, so my question is, how do i make files the equivilant of the windows .exe?

kano476

Windows stuff wont usually work on mac unless you have an emulator on it. I had a windows 95 emulator on my old imac it was crap but windows games/ programs worked on it. thats all i know! Im not sure if this has changed for later mac os systems but i had mac os 9 and i had to use the emulator.

tonky

This is OS9 you're using? Which MAC have you got?. Could you give us an example or two of the suffix (the bit behind the dot) of some of the files you're trying to transfer - e.g. program.xxx, what's the xxx bit?

wild_eyed

its os 8.6
the program im trying to run is a downloaded version of pro tools 5, but im having the same problem with loads of applications i download, on the files under windows there is nothing after the .xxx. so what is the 3 dots under os8.6 that maks the files executable? it's alrady been unzipped using stuffit. so the file is good.

wild_eyed

bump!

joemomma

Did you unstuff the files before burning them to CD? Your best bet would be to burn the Stuffit files (with a .sit extension) to the CD and then unstuff them on your Mac - this should preserve all the metadata that lets your Mac know the files are applications.

There's no equivalent of a '.exe' extension in Mac OS 8 to make a file executable.

RicardoSmith

Originally posted by joemomma
Did you unstuff the files before burning them to CD? Your best bet would be to burn the Stuffit files (with a .sit extension) to the CD and then unstuff them on your Mac - this should preserve all the metadata that lets your Mac know the files are applications.

There's no equivalent of a '.exe' extension in Mac OS 8 to make a file executable.

This is the way I used to do it and it worked fine. Though I've since sold the Mac I used to use. Generally when you download files/apps ( I assume your donwloading them) it gives you the option of downloading the native files for the Mac or a stuffed(same as zipped) version. Download the latter one and uncompress it on the Mac using unstuffit.

wild_eyed

i burnt both the stufffed (.sit) versions of the files and the unstuffed. .sit files vant be opened on the mac , i dont know why, stuffit is installed. and when i try to run it i get a carbon lib missing error. i cant install carbon lib cause most versions of it come stuffed.

RicardoSmith

Originally posted by wild_eyed
i burnt both the stufffed (.sit) versions of the files and the unstuffed. .sit files vant be opened on the mac , i dont know why, stuffit is installed. and when i try to run it i get a carbon lib missing error. i cant install carbon lib cause most versions of it come stuffed.

Catch 22 I see. You might get it on a cover CD from a Mac magazine. Maybe get if off someone from Clubmac.ie or go into the apple store in town and see if they'll do it for you. BTW you can burn a Mac CD on nero if you have that.

wild_eyed

is a mac cd different than a pc one?

RicardoSmith

Originally posted by wild_eyed
is a mac cd different than a pc one?

Yes its formatted differently with a different file structure.