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From: earleh@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Earle R. Horton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Problem Unbinhexing/Unstuffing Files
Keywords: Where's my applications
Message-ID: <12814@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU>
Date: 29 Mar 89 23:15:19 GMT
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In article <4330@ncrcae.Columbia.NCR.COM> sellers@ncrcae.Columbia.NCR.COM
	 (Todd Sellers) writes:
>I have a problem when I try to unbinhex and unstuff files that I have
>downloaded from comp.binaries.mac on my unix system.  The files
>transfer okay.  They seem to unbinhex okay, and they seem to unstuff
>okay.  The problem is that everything I download with type 'APPL'
>does not have a unique icon.

Two fixes exist.  Uncheck "Allow Background Tasks" under
"Preferences..." or always unstuff files into closed folders.  (So
that the file is not visible to the Finder until StuffIt is done with
it.)

What is happening is that the Bundle Bit of the applications is not
getting set correctly because of an interaction between the Finder and
StuffIt.  The same thing can happen when downloading MacBinary files
with the Bundle Bit set.

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