Mac Classic Apps Run Under OS X but Not On Native Classic

[Dan Shafer]

OK, I give up.

I built standalone versions of apps for a client today. He is stuck 
running OS 9 for a while yet, so I built Mac Classic versions. I ran 
them in Classic mode on my OS X system and they ran perfectly.

He installs them on his OS 9 box and they don't run. Instead, an error 
comes up when he tries to launch. The error says "The application 
program "XYZ" could not be opened, because it might be damaged or not 
work on this type of computer."

I've created it as a Fat ap,  as a PPC app (the machine is a 
four-year-old iBook) and even as a 68K app. Only when it's a Fat app 
does his Mac even recognize it as an application; the other two treat 
it as a document of unknown origin.

I've read some stuff on the list (going back a ways) about needing to 
build OS 9 apps in the OS 9 version of RR (which of course is not yet 
available for 2.5...sigh), but *surely* this problem has been solved a 
long time ago, right? Right?

Any ideas?


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Dan Shafer, Revolutionary
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