How to transfer a UNIX executable through Rev

[Thierry D.]

Le 25 nov. 09 à 08:12, Richard Miller a écrit :

> Here's what I am doing. Not sure why this doesn't work.
>

Could it be that you only need to set the executable bit ?

chmod +x <your file>

HTH,
Thierry


> I want to transfer the UNIX executable portion of a Mac rev  
> application bundle via ftp. I take the file; compress it to a .gz  
> file; ftp it; then decompress it. The file size is identical upon  
> arrival, but it is no longer recognized as an executable... only a  
> text document.
>
> I am using "binfile" throughout (put the compress of url  
> "binfile:xxx" into url "binfile:xxx.gz"). What am I missing?  I am  
> transferring from a Mac server to a Mac computer.