Can't see shakobox.mc

[Jan Schenkel]

Hi Ken,

The OS appearently doesn't know what 'filetype' and
'creator' the .mc file has.
Have you tried drag&dropping the 'shakobox.mc' file
onto the RunRev icon?
If that doesn't do it, let us know,

Jan Schenkel.

--- Ken Norris <pixelbird at interisland.net> wrote:
> **********
> > Date: Sun, 02 Mar 2003 23:00:58 -0600
> > From: "J. Landman Gay" <jacque at hyperactivesw.com>
> > Organization: HyperActive Software
> > Subject: Re: Can't see shakobox.mc
> 
> > On 3/2/03 7:47 PM, Ken Norris wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >> 
> >> I can't see shakobox.mc in any list, and can't
> open it at all.
> >.
> > 
> > It's a StuffIt archive. Did you decompress it? If
> so, do you mean you
> > can't open the stack itself?
> ----------
> PreNOTE: If you made shakobox.mc to work ONLY on OSX
> then that might account
> for it. I thought you said there were two versions,
> but there is only one
> available at the d/l site. When I d/l'd Tuviah's
> externals collection there
> were two files: 1) Mac OS, and 2) Mac OSX. However,
> BOTH show up in Rev's
> stack list dialog, whereas "shakobox.mc" does not
> 
> Yes to both questions. Notice the name (of course I
> could've renamed it, but
> I didn't). When I d/l'd the file it comes up
> "shakobox.sit", then when you
> doubleclick it, Stuffit automatically unstuffs,
> i.e., decompresses it.
> AFAIK, it would do that no matter where it is. Then
> you end up with 2 files:
> 
> shakobox.mc
> shakobox.sit
> 
> I trashed "shakobox.sit"
> 
> ...but you know all that is normal.
> 
> If I try to open it from the DT, I get this Mac
> message:
> 
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> The document "shakobox.mc" could not be opened
> because the application that
> created it could not be found.
> 
> Could not find a translation extension with
> appropriate translators.
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 
> ...in addition, "shakobox.mc" cannot be seen by the
> stack list dialog in
> Rev. It simply isn't there, and so it cannot be
> opened. I put it into a
> folder and moved the folder into the Rev folder (the
> Externals Collection
> folder is also in the Rev folder). When I open the
> folder from within the
> Rev folder window, the file is there, but when I
> open the folder from Rev's
> stack list dialog (Menu item "Open Stack"), it is
> EMPTY. The only
> explanation I can think of is that Rev 1.1.1 doesn't
> recognize it as a
> stack.
> 
> NOTE: I don't have MC other than the Rev engine.
> 
> Still, Tuviah Snyder's externals d/l'd fine and the
> OS  will open from
> within Rev and install OK as well, but if I try to
> open them 'cold' from the
> folder they will also throw the same message above,
> and won't open (but. as
> I said, they DO show up in the Rev stack list
> dialog, and WILL open, unlike
> "shakobox.mc"
> 
> I tried renaming it with a .rev extension and with
> no extension name, no
> good, no effect. Tuviah's stacks don't have
> extensions.
> 
> The folder which I  put shakobox.mc into shows 4
> tiny parallelograms in the
> upper left corner of the mem line of the folder
> window. I've never seen them
> before and don't know what they mean, but it MUST
> have something to do with
> it because they are not there in the folder which
> has the externals
> collection. Where can I find info on the 4 little
> parallelograms (do they
> perhaps represent 4 other folders?).
> 
> I have no cure so far :-(, but maybe it has
> something to do with OS 9.1.
> Perhaps the text problem caused it. Maybe it will
> work if I d/l it to the PB
> under OS 8.6. If I can open it there, maybe I can
> try transferring the file
> while file sharing is on. If not maybe I can open it
> from there and install
> it in my Rev apps from there (that would lead me to
> believe the problem is
> somewhere in OS 9.1, i.e., the dithered font doesn't
> exist and so it refuses
> recognition).
> 
> I'll try it.
> 
> Ken N.
> 
> 
> 
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