DP3 won't run!

Scott Anguish sanguish at stepwise.com
Sat Mar 4 21:41:37 PST 2000


> > Nice catch 22.
>
> > Good luck explaining to the "Don't Think" Mac crowd how to deal with 
> > getting
> > OpenUp extracted and installed.
>
> Maybe it should be set up as some sort of self-extracting archive? Less 
> explanation that way...  "All you have to do is double click on  
the downloaded
> icon.  And then agree to everything."
>
> That'd stop a few of these... "It was too hard!" comments.

	Aside from the terrible security problems with such a situation...

	downloading doesn't set the executable bit... so double  
clicking on it won't really help you.. it'll load into TextEdit.   
This might (might) be something that could be horked through via  
JavaScript in a downloader... but I'm not sure..

	On Mac OS X Server it shipped on the Third Party Solutions  
CD (under the P & L folderf).. but I've been unable to get anyone to  
include it with the default install like OmniWeb is.  Its not  
considered an important enough application to go through the  
paperwork.

	I imagine that in the Mac OS X world apps like OpenUp will  
be pushed aside by the proprietary StuffIt solution (barf)..

	Talk about your monopoly..





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