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Received: from theory.tc.cornell.edu (THEORY.TC.CORNELL.EDU [132.236.98.174]) by nacm.com (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id VAA24141 for <executor@nacm.com>; Tue, 8 Aug 1995 21:48:30 -0700 Received: (from wmagro@localhost) by theory.tc.cornell.edu (8.6.9/8.6.6) id AAA70114 for executor@nacm.com; Wed, 9 Aug 1995 00:48:29 -0400 From: William Magro <wmagro@TC.Cornell.EDU> Message-Id: <199508090448.AAA70114@theory.tc.cornell.edu> Subject: Re: binaries off a file server To: executor@nacm.com Date: Wed, 9 Aug 1995 00:48:29 -0500 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <199508090147.SAA21620@nacm.com> from "owner-executor-digest@nacm.com" at Aug 8, 95 06:47:16 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL21] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 898 Sender: owner-paper@nacm.com Precedence: bulk >From: Jason Yanowitz <yanowitz@eternity.cs.umass.edu> >Date: Tue, 08 Aug 95 14:07:38 -0400 >Subject: how to get binaries on a file server to work? [snip] >We have netware 3.11 running, with the nfs-nlm on it. I am >NFS-mounting all the netware volumes, which includes a volume with all >the mac software for office. > >Unfortunately, I am unable to run any of these programs. (examples: >word 5.1, hypercard, macwrite, macdraw) because executor doesn't see >them as executable.. all the files have the "scroll" icon (I assume >for identifying text files). When I double click on Word (for >example) it opens Tex-Edit (which is understandable if it thinks it's >a text file). get-information reveals: It sounds like your file server is exporting only the data forks of the files. Nothing in executor can be changed to run these files if the resource fork isn't there, I should think. --Bill