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From: pharr-matthew@cs.yale.edu (Matthew Pharr)
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Subject: Re: Moire questions
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Date: 9 Oct 90 19:20:50 GMT
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In article <28616@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> biswa@faraday.berkeley.edu.UUCP (Biswa Ranjan Ghosh) writes:
>I just downloaded Moire from the sumex archives. After debinhexing/
>unstuffing, I ended up with the application and the docs, which are
>supposed to be Macwrite documents. However, my machine doesn't seem
>to know that (generic document icon, and get-info shows just
>document, not Macwrite document). Also can`t open the docs from
>either Macwrite or Word.`
>
>Am I doing something wrong? I downloaded it twice, with the same
>results. Any other documents which I create come up with the correct
>icon and are recognized by Macwrite and Word.

I had a similar problem unstuffing stuff from FTPs and I found that if you're
using Gatekeeper, you have to be sure to give stuffit privliges to change
things like file type, etc.. Otherwise, you get the annoying generic document
icons...

Matt