wiseman@tellabs.com (Jeff Wiseman) (11/03/90)
In article <29097@boulder.Colorado.EDU> steelem@spot.Colorado.EDU (STEELE MARK ALLEN) writes: > >bundle bit: Also with StuffIt Classic... Double clicking on an old >SIT! archive will not launch StuffIt Classic or for that matter >SIT 1.5.1 (which made the archive). It appears as though several >applications loose the bundle bit with their documents and bund-aid >will not fix the problem. Any suggestions? I have seen this same thing with Stuffit.1.5.1. I have noticed though that if the folder containing the Stuffit application is open (ie that Stuffit application can been seen) this problem doesn't occur. Try setting your "view" of the folder containing your archive to name or date or something where you can view the document type. I have discovered that anytime the type is NOT "stuffit document", double clicking won't work (more on this in a minute). HOWEVER, this is on our MACIIX at work running sys 6.0.4. At home, I use the same applications and everything works PERFECT on my mac SE running system 6.0.2. The only differences that I can think of are as follows: 1) The mac itself and its hardware (since this is a basic OS issue this seems to perhaps be unlikely) 2) The operating system version (What are you using? I've not seen this problem on 6.0.2) 3) an INIT that was once loaded on our machine at work. THIS ONE IS KINDA SUSPICIOUS. I have always maintained the most recent version of disinfectant on this machine at work so standard viruses seem perhaps unlikely. However, there was this init that we had installed for a while that put a picture of Garfield the cat by a garbage can saying "I hate IBM" on the screen (in color) at startup. I think the name of the init was "color garfield" or something like that. I removed the init when I discovered something odd. Remember me mentioning above about the stuffit documents not being marked as such? Well the file type that they DID show was "color garfield..". When the folder containing the stuffit application is opened these file type names change to "stuffit document..". The problem is, now that the init is removed from the system, this problem still exists. I have used FixDeskTop to rebuild the desktop file but it has not eliminated the problem. Anyone have any other ideas on this one? -- Jeff Wiseman: ....uunet!tellab5!wiseman OR wiseman@TELLABS.COM
tv0c+@andrew.cmu.edu (Thomas Edward Van Lenten) (11/04/90)
Couple things... 1- On 02-Nov-90 in cicn and bundle... user STEELE MARK ALLEN@boulde writes: >cicn: I have found, with ResEdit, several cicn's however when I >run StuffIt Classic and make an archive, rebuild the desktop, etc. >I see no color icons on the window. My machine is a Mac SE/30 with The Finder does not support CICNs or ICN8s to date. There are some inits that will do this, Color FInder or SunDesk, but it takes an init to get it to work. The ICN8 format is the one that will be supported with System 7. But no color icons in the finder until then. 2- On 03-Nov-90 in Garfield user Kathy Strong@ccwf.cc.ute writes: >>this machine at work so standard viruses seem perhaps unlikely. However, there >>was this init that we had installed for a while that put a picture of Garfield >>the cat by a garbage can saying "I hate IBM" on the screen (in color) at >>startup. I think the name of the init was "color garfield" or something like >>that. >Garfield is definitely a virus--I believe it's a variant of WDEF. The *most* >recent version of Disinfectant should kill it. Unfortunately, I can't tell >you what version number that is--they update it so quickly and so often. The init that changed the trashcan is not a virus! That is one of the various shareware inits there are that will change the trashcan. There is also one that will make Oscar (as in Sesame Street) come out and say something when you empty the trash. PLEASE, don't confuse virus and harmless inits, that is how the bad rumors get started, that can lead the people who aren't too comfortable with computers to panic. The current version of Disinfectant is 2.3. I sudgest that anyone with questions about viruses read it, the only docs are huge, and contain a lot of useful information. TVL -or-Tom Van Lenten tv0c@andrew.cmu.edu bitnet%"tv0c@andrew"