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Re: Hypercard problem



In article <4grv2b$9f4@ustsu10.ust.hk>, bo_ltl@uxmail.ust.hk (Salty Bean) 
declares...

>1. I can't run some *.hqx files after expanded them, the items are all 
>   question mark icons that can't be executed.

Right.  Macs don't use filename extensions to map files to applications; 
they use two four-character codes for creator and file-type.  To make an 
icon double-clickable in Executor, you need to click on it, Get Info (or 
LeftAlt-I), and change the type and creator to that of a file which you 
already know to be double-clickable.  This is more trouble than it's worth. 
 Just open up StuffIt, then open up your file from the File/Open box.  All 
Executor File/Open boxes I know of allow you to open all files.  

Perhaps it's something to do with ARDI's implementation of the ROMs?  I 
dunno.

>2. Some Hypercard-required programs(BTW, WHat's hypercard?) won't run
>   on the system even I tried to download a programme called hypercard
>   player2.3 from apple mirror site, unluckly, it itself hangs the system.

   I'm sure it is a mac version, not power mac.

HyperCard is pretty useless for me, so I haven't bothered finding out if it 
works.  What do you mean by a "Hypercard-required program"?

Scott Shuchart
shuchart@fas.harvard.edu



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