Unzipping Mac apps with revZip

[Roger Eller]

On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 6:54 AM, Terry Judd wrote:

> On 06/07/2011 05:41 PM, "Terry Judd" wrote:
>
> > I¹m trying to extract and save files from a zip archive using Livecodes
> > built in zip routines. It all seems to work well (I open the archive for
> > reading, list the contents using the enumerateItems function and write
> them
> > out to file, creating any nested folders where necessary) except that Mac
> > apps (bundles) that are have been extracted won¹t run despite appearing
> to
> > be OK (all bits and pieces are in the right places). When you attempt to
> > launch an unzipped app it flashes in the dock and then quits. If I unzip
> the
> > archive by double-clicking it in the Finder the Mac apps work just fine.
> >
> > Am I missing something?
>
> OK, I've tracked the problem down to the executable inside the MacOS folder
> inside the bundle. Doing a 'get info' on the original and unzipped
> executables reveals the original is a 'Unix Executable File (Intel)' while
> the unzipped version is a 'Terminal.app Document'. The two files appear to
> be identical otherwise.
>
> How would I go about changing a terminal document to a unix executable?
>
> Terry...
>
> --
> Dr Terry Judd | Senior Lecturer in Medical Education
> Medical Education Unit
> Melbourne Medical School
> The University of Melbourne
>

In Terminal, type chmod 755 /path/to/file2becomeExecutable.

In fact, you can drag the file into terminal to get the path too.

˜Roger