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From: wiseman@tellabs.com (Jeff Wiseman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: cicn and bundle...
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Date: 2 Nov 90 18:34:43 GMT
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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?


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