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Wilhelm Sanke sanke at hrz.uni-kassel.de
Thu Aug 1 15:31:01 EDT 2002


On Thu, 1 Aug 2002 Simon Lord <slord at mac.com> wrote:



> Here's a toughy.  At some point I want to offer some stacks to a
> client.  They'll all be runtime stacks.  But I'd rather just
> build a generic standalone that allows the stacks to run which
> will help reduce the total filesize dramatically (since each
> stack would be roughly 16k to 180k rather than 6mb each).
>
> Now, this project is for Mac OSX only.  And my question is, does
> anyone know how to run a command line that will hide the
> extension on all files that end in .mc?  You can do this in the
> Get Info box from the Finder but I want to do this more
> discretely so as to make the stacks look more like individual
> applications (which they are) rather than a collections of files
> that belong to one runtime app.
>
> Sincerely,
> Simon
>

You can save Metacard stacks and open them with any extension you like.
What about the command line: go to stack "Simon.lor"?

Regards,

Wilhelm





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