Really weird occurence in Saving a Mac Stand alone

[Joe Lewis Wilkins]

Jacque, thanks for the thoughts. I'm trying something else first,  
since I think I just confused the compiler with the parameters  
provided from the dialog I was using. If I can't, I'll try as you've  
suggested. It makes some sense. File names are so touchy!

On Apr 5, 2007, at 10:41 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote:

> Joe Lewis Wilkins wrote:
>> Hi All,
>> You've got to hand it to me. I DO have the weirdest things happen.
>> I saved a Standalone. I opened the Mac OSX version. Played with it  
>> a bit, then decided I wanted to save a copy. So I selected the  
>> Save A copy As... with the following handler in  the File menu:
>> case "Save A Copy As..."
>>     answer folder "Select destination folder for backup: "
>>     if the result is "Cancel" then exit menupick
>>     revCopyFile (the effective fileName of this stack), it
>>     break
>> Then I went looking to see if the changes I'd made were actually  
>> saved, but lo and behold a PC exe version was where the saved copy  
>> should have been.
>> Any thoughts?
>
> I can't say I've ever tried to save a copy of a standalone from  
> within itself. But are you sure it's a PC executable? Or does the  
> Finder just think it is, and is assigning the wrong icon? I'm  
> betting that the creator/type codes weren't set, and the Finder has  
> no idea what kind of file that is.
>
> I'm also wondering if you actually got an executable file, or just  
> a copy of the main stack. Are the file sizes on disk the same  
> between the two copies? If they are the same, then you might be  
> able to use a creator/type editor to change the type to "APPL" and  
> you'd be in business.
>
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> Jacqueline Landman Gay         |     jacque at hyperactivesw.com
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