[Metacard] Darwin question again...

[Richard MacLemale]

Sorry if this ends up being posted twice... For some reason I got bounced
off the list and had to resubscribe.  Was it something I said?  :)

Anyway,
After spending an hour in the list archives this morning and getting bits
and pieces of the info I need, I gave up and decided to just post the
question...

Here's what I think I know:
1.  You can download the darwin metacard engine and it will run under OS X.
2.  This will allow you to write scripts and save them as .mt files which
can be placed in the CGI folder.
3.  An example of such a file is echo.mt, included with MetaCard.

I downloaded the darwin engine, I double-clicked it and it uncompressed (via
Stuffit).  This created a folder with two files - gunzip and mc.gz.

If you double-click the mc.qz file, it unzips and you have a file named mc.
Putting that file into the CGI directory is NOT enough to make it work.  OS
X doesn't know that it's an application.  I surmise that the directions that
tell OS X about mc being an app are contained in the gunzip file.

Finally, the question - How do you DO this?  What are the step by step
instructions for installing the darwin mc engine?  I've got the darwin.tar
file from the MC web site, and I know where the CGI folder is
(Library/WebServer/CGI-Executables).

Thanks very much in advance,

:)
Richard MacLemale
Instructional Technology Specialist
James W. Mitchell High School