TMPLee@DOCKMASTER.ARPA (12/18/87)
Does anyone know if there is a way to load and execute old-fashioned binary programs from the Finder? When you click on them it says "can't find application" or words to that affect; what I seem to have to do is click on Basic.System to get it going and then "manually" start the binary I want.
TMPLee@DOCKMASTER.ARPA (12/31/87)
Thanks to Dave Lyons I have now been able to get the Finder to launch old-fashioned binary files, and learned a lesson in the process. Two things are needed to do the job: an appropriate Icon (which he sent me; someone else mentioned there is a whole set of them in Apple2-L) AND the most recent (well, anyway, a recent one) version of basic.launcher. The lesson learned was to make sure you have the most recent version of the various parts of the system; having picked up one set from the WordPerfect disks and another from my dealer and yet the original version 1.1 when I got the machine I have probably completely lost track of which version is where! (I think that is called bad configuration management!) In the process I learned enough about the inner structure of icon definitions to have the courage to change (with a disk editor) the text string that defines the application to be loaded -- at least enough so that it isn't bound to a specific volume name. Out of this I do have a question -- does there exist any (ideally, any GOOD) documentation on the Finder, and if so how does one go about getting it? Does it now come with new machines? TMPLee@Dockmaster