Creating Mac standalone on Windows Studio?

[J. Landman Gay]

Peter Alcibiades wrote:
> Dioes the Finder have the ability to get and set properties, ie permissions? 
> The usual thing to do in Linux, very similar base, would be to tell the user
> to right click in a file manager, ie in the Mac case the Finder, get
> properties, and change the permissions to executable.  You wouldn't normally
> need to ask them to do that in the terminal.  Haven't used Macs for quite a
> while, so maybe it doesn't work like this.

The Finder can set user permissions for the user, group, and everyone. 
But it doesn't have an interface for the executable bit, that has to be 
done in Terminal. Perhaps Apple didn't think the executable bit should 
be messed with by the peons -- probably wise, considering the computer 
savvy of the general population.

-- 
Jacqueline Landman Gay         |     jacque at hyperactivesw.com
HyperActive Software           |     http://www.hyperactivesw.com