Unzipping Mac apps with revZip

[Terry Judd]

On 06/07/2011, at 9:26 PM, "Roger Eller" <roger.e.eller at sealedair.com> wrote:

> 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...
> >
> 
> In Terminal, type chmod 755 /path/to/file2becomeExecutable.
> 
> In fact, you can drag the file into terminal to get the path too.
> 
> ˜Roger
> 
Thanks for the tip Roger.

Terry...
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