OSX Executable Problem

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RaiBlastoise

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I am still installing some programs on the new iBook I posted about a while back, which, BTW, amy aunt had already installed Tiger on. <("<)
So I am installing programs, and I'm not quite sure how OSX executables work. I know that they are set up somewhat like folders. (I remember resource forks from OS7...) But some of the executables (i.e. installation executables) do not have a filename, and they are not folders. It shows up as a "UNIX Executable", just like everything else that Tiger doesn't know what it is. I tried renaming it to ".app", but that didn't work either. Should I be trying to decompress it, or does it work like a package, or what?

If you have any help, that would be greatly appreciated.
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> I am still installing some programs on the new iBook I
> posted about a while back, which, BTW, amy aunt had already
> installed Tiger on.
>

Did you try Google?
Does <font color=blue>th<a href=http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Porting/Conceptual/PortingUnix/compiling/chapter_4_section_7.html>i</a>s</font> help?
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Like in Unix/linux, make sure the file's permissions are set to "Execute". A quick Google search implies that Mac OS X isn't identifying the owner or file permissions, so it shows up as a generic 'unix executable'.

I don't have a Mac to test it out on though.
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> Like in Unix/linux, make sure the file's permissions are set
> to "Execute".

heh heh... I can't believe I forgot that. So I must have to do that from the console, eh?
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> > Like in Unix/linux, make sure the file's permissions are
> set
> > to "Execute".
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> heh heh... I can't believe I forgot that. So I must have to
> do that from the console, eh?

It's been a while, but I think you can right-click and go to "File Properties" or some such. But I haven't been in front of a Mac in over a year.
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Yes, that would be Get Info, or Cmd+I. However, I believe that dialog only sets r and w permissions.

That, and, I just realized I don't remember how to set permissions in the UNIX prompt.

Ooh, does this mean I can set permissions to rwx, rw,and nothing so I can be the only run to run it?
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> That, and, I just realized I don't remember how to set
> permissions in the UNIX prompt.
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chmod +x
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Toast seems to be handling it by itself, there was magically a filename extension ".toast" which there WASN'T in windows. So I guess it will work thanks to toast.
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