Matthew Weymar
matth****@gmail*****
Mon Aug 1 08:29:01 JST 2005
On 7/31/05, Seiji Zenitani <zenit****@tkg*****> wrote: > Hi, > > Sorry for my late response. Not at all! Tks so much for following up! > I retried the below issue and my > conclusion is that the FAT32 drive is not supported due to Mac OSX's > problem. I think I understand: It's a Mac OSX issue. Q: You don't know whether this is a known issue, do you?... (I have not yet researched this myself.) > Several symbolic links play important roles inside the > Emacs.app bundle but it seems that one cannot copy them by dragging > the icon into the FAT32 USB drive. Strangely, I can copy a symbolic > link into the USB drive by using 'cp' command in Terminal.app but I > cannot copy it by dragging the icon into the USB drive. Do you mean to suggest that I could 'cp' the Emacs.app to the USB drive?... Or am I missing something here?... (Again: On the run here, so I've not yet tried this myself.) Again, many tks for the response, Matthew > -- Seiji > > On 2005/06/28, at 11:31, Matthew Weymar wrote: > > > > On 6/27/05, Seiji Zenitani <zenit****@tkg*****> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > A Japanese developer pointed out that a sticky bit to an executable > > file (Emacs.app/Contents/ MacOS/bin/emacs) has no special meaning > > on Mac OSX. (ref. man sticky) So I will turn off the sticky bit by > > default, so that the user can copy the Emacs icon into FAT32 USB > > drive. > > > > Matthew, follow the below script or please wait for the next release. > > > > zenitani at iBookG4 $ ls -l /Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/ MacOS/ > > bin/emacs > > -rwxr-xr-t 1 zenitani admin 16940256 Jun 18 16:49 /Applications/ > > Emacs.app/Contents/ MacOS/bin/emacs > > zenitani at iBookG4 $ chmod 755 /Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/ > > MacOS/bin/emacs > > zenitani at iBookG4 $ ls -l /Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/ MacOS/ > > bin/emacs > > -rwxr-xr-x 1 zenitani admin 16940256 Jun 18 16:49 /Applications/ > > Emacs.app/Contents/ MacOS/bin/emacs > > > > -- Seiji > > > > Tks for your reply, Seiji. > > > > I've followed your instructions and have the following now: > > [blahblahblah:Contents/MacOS/bin] [user]% ls -l emacs > > -rwxr-xr-x 1 [user] admin 16914468 Jun 7 06:16 emacs > > > > I.e., the sticky bit's no longer set. > > > > Still no luck copying it to my USB drive, however. Same error as > > above. > > > > Any other suggestions?... Or questions?... > > > > Tks again for your help with this - and for your work on this > > project, more generally, as well, > > Matthew > > _______________________________________________ > macemacsjp-english mailing list > macem****@lists***** > http://lists.sourceforge.jp/mailman/listinfo/macemacsjp-english > -- www.weymar.com
