Creating Mac standalone on Windows Studio?

stephen barncard stephenREVOLUTION2 at barncard.com
Thu May 20 15:11:10 EDT 2010


Jacque: By "done in the terminal" does that mean it can't be done by shell()
?



On 20 May 2010 11:39, J. Landman Gay <jacque at hyperactivesw.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
>
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