Problem downloading engine for Mac OS fat and Mac OS 68k

[J. Landman Gay]

Thomas von Fintel wrote:
> I try to build a standalone for various platforms. When I check Mac OS 
> fat and Mac OS 68k in "Standalone Application Settings" dialog, Rev 2.6 
> offers to download the engines but soon says "Problem downloading 
> engine". The engines I manually downloaded from ftp.runrev.com 
> (pub/revolution/downloads/engines) get unstuffed to files MacOSfat.dir 
> and MacOS68k.dir, that are not recognized as valid engines.
> 
> Where do I get usable engines?

There aren't yet any 2.6 classic engines, but you can use the ones you 
have already downloaded. These are stored in a special format so that 
they don't lose the resource fork that OS 9 requires. Put the engine 
downloads into the defaultfolder (whch is usually the Rev distribiution 
folder) and then type this into the message box:

revDecompress "<downloaded filename here>",defaultfolder

Don't decompress them with StuffIt or anything first, just leave them as 
you got them when they were downloaded. The above command will 
decompress the engines into the default folder and give you a usable 
engine. Move it to the "components/engines" folder and it should work.

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