OS9 engine or player?

[Richard Gaskin]

If this is common enough to warrant a boilerplate could it be added to 
the FAQ on RunRev's Support page?

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  Richard Gaskin
  Fourth World Media Corporation
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J. Landman Gay wrote:
> My boilerplate reply (this comes up a lot):
> 
> If necessary, you can manually download the various engine files from 
> the Runtime site. The standalone builder cannot use the Mac OS engines 
> without some additional decompression first.
> 
> The Mac FAT engine is called "MacOSfat.dir.gz".
> The OS X engine is called "Revolution.app.dir.gz"
> 
> The engines can be downloaded from:
> 
> ftp://ftp.runrev.com/pub/revolution/downloads/engines/
> 
> As of this writing, the last available OS 9 engine is version 2.5.
> 
> The ".dir.gz" extension is a special compression technique used to 
> preserve the resource fork. Place the downloaded file on your computer 
> in the same folder as the Revolution application. Then launch Revolution 
> and type into the message box:
> 
> revDecompress "Revolution.app.dir.gz",defaultfolder
> 
> This will decompress the Mac OS engine into the default folder and give 
> you a useable engine file. You can then move this file to the 
> "components/engines" directory where you should be able to build the 
> standalone.
>