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Urgent request for help 1 47 (6/14/2012 4:19:26 AM) comp.sys.mac.system I just received a note from a Mac user with Safari 5.1.7 browser, she said she could not input data with Knowledge NoteBook Lite ( http://www.knowledgenotebook.com/knbweb.html or http://184.175.78.118:8600... justaguy

An update... 0 31 (6/11/2012 10:16:47 PM) comp.sys.mac.system Hi, Several months ago when I ventured into building an offline web app for Mac and iMac I received generous help from a few of you (Mac gurus), which I greatly appreciated. Hired someone using PackageMak... justaguy

An update: ok our installer made by PackageMaker is ready... 15 44 (12/19/2011 8:05:43 AM) comp.sys.mac.system Hi, With the help of many here... our app installer made by PackageMaker is finally ready for testing... please pm me if you care to give it a try, I'll send you its download URL. Many thanks for everything. ... justaguy

Not sure if it's ok... 0 46 (12/15/2011 2:42:17 AM) comp.sys.mac.system To ask for a few people here to do a quick "dirty" installation testing, about 10 minutes. 2 testing has been successful, needs more for a measure of its reliability. Yes, it is not for average Mac users. For... justaguy

Looking for a simple sample Package info file (.info) 33 91 (12/13/2011 9:52:48 PM) comp.sys.mac.system It's been proven that a shell script can't be used an installer for Mac OS X. In the process we got feelings hurt... I've searched for a simple sample Package info file, which seems most critical to make a p... justaguy

desktop icon vs. Dock 25 69 (12/11/2011 1:58:16 PM) comp.sys.mac.system For those who read my post first time, I'm not a Mac user and I don't have a Mac, and I'm close to completion of porting my app to Mac... With Windows OS (either 32 bit or 64 bit CPU), one can use the followin... justaguy

real simple question 14 36 (12/11/2011 1:36:11 AM) comp.sys.mac.system shell scripting, to open up Firefox browse with a URL , is the following code correct? open /Applications/Firefox.app "http://127.0.0.1:8888/knb/ myAppStartup" sorry I have to bug ppl so much... this is the... justaguy

How to add a program icon to Mac desktop / program bar? 48 47 (12/10/2011 8:29:19 PM) comp.sys.mac.system Hi, Task: create an icon of Knowledge NoteBook to launch it on the Mac, and upon launch, it opens up Firefox browser with URL, http://127.0.0.1:8888/knb/ code sample I that I found from the net (no helpful ex... justaguy

copying folders, subfolders and files... 12 55 (12/10/2011 6:20:38 PM) comp.sys.mac.system Upon unzipping of a compressed file with zip extension, the following script is intended to copy all the folders, respective sufolders and files, and hopefully file attributes to the target folder of /Library/... justaguy

Detect Firefox from current Mac box (code ready) 42 49 (12/10/2011 4:44:56 PM) comp.sys.mac.system With the help of this ng, I've come up with the following code to detect if the current Mac computer has Firefox browser installed already but because I don't have a Mac myself, it would you be very helpful if ... justaguy

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How to detect the existence of a program, ie. Firefox on a Mac? 84 47 (12/9/2011 2:52:47 PM) comp.sys.mac.system Once again, I am not a Mac user. How to detect if a given Mac computer has Firefox installed already? Using shell scripting. And if it does not exist prompt a window with a msg: "Firefox is required. Please ... donli (155)

Zipping files... 14 30 (12/9/2011 3:26:45 PM) comp.sys.mac.system Would zipping files including folders/subfolders with Windows 7 work for Mac as well? That is both Mac OS X and Windows 7 are compatible about compression utility nowadays? Thanks. ... donli (155)

cAsE #2 15 39 (12/9/2011 4:12:36 PM) comp.sys.mac.system Unix is case-sensitive, by its extension, is file and Directory structure case-sensitive as well with Mac OS X? That is, Mac would fail to find /Libary/myApp if actually the following Directory does exist, /Li... donli (155)

Detect Firefox from current Mac box (code ready) 42 49 (12/10/2011 4:44:56 PM) comp.sys.mac.system With the help of this ng, I've come up with the following code to detect if the current Mac computer has Firefox browser installed already but because I don't have a Mac myself, it would you be very helpful if ... donli (155)

copying folders, subfolders and files... 12 55 (12/10/2011 6:20:38 PM) comp.sys.mac.system Upon unzipping of a compressed file with zip extension, the following script is intended to copy all the folders, respective sufolders and files, and hopefully file attributes to the target folder of /Library/... donli (155)

How to add a program icon to Mac desktop / program bar? 48 47 (12/10/2011 8:29:19 PM) comp.sys.mac.system Hi, Task: create an icon of Knowledge NoteBook to launch it on the Mac, and upon launch, it opens up Firefox browser with URL, http://127.0.0.1:8888/knb/ code sample I that I found from the net (no helpful ex... donli (155)

real simple question 14 36 (12/11/2011 1:36:11 AM) comp.sys.mac.system shell scripting, to open up Firefox browse with a URL , is the following code correct? open /Applications/Firefox.app "http://127.0.0.1:8888/knb/ myAppStartup" sorry I have to bug ppl so much... this is the... donli (155)

desktop icon vs. Dock 25 69 (12/11/2011 1:58:16 PM) comp.sys.mac.system For those who read my post first time, I'm not a Mac user and I don't have a Mac, and I'm close to completion of porting my app to Mac... With Windows OS (either 32 bit or 64 bit CPU), one can use the followin... donli (155)

Looking for a simple sample Package info file (.info) 33 91 (12/13/2011 9:52:48 PM) comp.sys.mac.system It's been proven that a shell script can't be used an installer for Mac OS X. In the process we got feelings hurt... I've searched for a simple sample Package info file, which seems most critical to make a p... donli (155)

An update: ok our installer made by PackageMaker is ready... 15 44 (12/19/2011 8:05:43 AM) comp.sys.mac.system Hi, With the help of many here... our app installer made by PackageMaker is finally ready for testing... please pm me if you care to give it a try, I'll send you its download URL. Many thanks for everything. ... donli (155)