OS9 Standalone

[Mark Schonewille]

Hi Jacque,

Unfortunately, you are partly wrong (but fortunately you may also be  
partly right). If you create a standalone with a password-protected  
stack in 2.4 format, Revolution will convert it to 2.7 format. This  
means that a password-protected standalone created with Rev 4 will  
never run on Mac OS 9.

To answer OP's question, I was unable to get any standalone created in  
Mac OS X with Rev 2.7* or later working in Mac OS 9. There may be  
several reasons for this. I might be using commands and functions that  
are unavalable in the 2.6 engine, or my hard disk is formatted such  
that the file system can't deal with classic resource forks, or the  
new standalone builder forgets to add (parts of) the resource fork.

Whenever I have to create a standalone for Mac OS 9, I fire up my old  
PowerMac, edit the stack in Rev 2.6.1, and build the standalone inside  
the environment it is supposed to run in.

*) I write 2.7 for my own convenience. The OS9 option isn't always  
available.

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Best regards,

Mark Schonewille

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On 24 sep 2009, at 03:22, J. Landman Gay wrote:

> DunbarX at aol.com wrote:
>> All:
>> The 3.5 docs do say that the 2.6.1 classic engine is used to make  
>> the standalone, and that one should watch out for included v.3-4  
>> functionality that might break in that earlier version; that the  
>> newer code may not compile in the 2.6 engine. Makes sense.
>> Otherwise, except for that caveat, it seems like OS 9 is supported  
>> in v.3.5; it does after all create a fat standalone.
>
> The file format changed in Rev 2.7. If you want to build an OS 9  
> standalone using Rev 3.5, you need to save the stack in legacy  
> format (there's an option in the Save dialog for that.) If you  
> don't, the 2.6.1 engine can't read the 2.7 file format, which I  
> think is why your original standalone wouldn't launch.
>
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> Jacqueline Landman Gay         |     jacque at hyperactivesw.com
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