How to transfer a UNIX executable through Rev

[Richard Miller]

I believe that did it. Enormous thanks to you.
Richard


Thierry D. wrote:
>
> Le 25 nov. 09 à 13:07, Richard Miller a écrit :
>
>> Thierry,
>>
>> Could be. I'm not familiar with this.
>>
>> I'm trying this:
>>
>> get shell ("chmod + x MyExecutableFileName")
>>
>
> typo ?
>
> Need to be +x , not + x !
>
>> When I run this in the msg box, it returns "1". But I see no change 
>> to the app. It still looks like a text document... not a Unix 
>> Executable File
>
> try get shell( "ls -l" ) then.
>
> you should see in  something like this :
>
> -rw-rw-r--   1 thierry  thierry   2979 Feb  5  2007 rev2perlInit.c
> -rw-r--r--   1 thierry  thierry   2559 Mar 28  2007 ToCopyInStack.dat
> -rwxrwxrwx   1 thierry  thierry   3797 Mar 28  2007 TranslatePm2c.pl
> -rw-r--r--   1 thierry  thierry    577 Feb  2  2007 rev2perl.c
>
> r: read
> w: write
> x: executable
>
> 1st 3 letters for user, next 3 for group, last 3 for others.
>
> On my samples, you can see that TranslatePm2c.pl can be executed by all,
> but not the other files.
>
> Regards,
> Thierry
>
>>>
>>>> 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.
>
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