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    Reinstalling an old app

    QuarkXpress is suppose to work in classic mode, but I'm reading up on forks right now (resorce and data) in wikipedia's Mac OS article, and yeah, if the resource fork is gone, it's done. Anyway to check that at the binary level? I'm gonna google around so if I come across it I'll post the answer :)
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    Reinstalling an old app

    From wikipedia's QuarkXpress article: "The release of version 5 in 2002 led to a row with Apple who threatened to no longer endorse QuarkXPress, as the version did not support Mac OS X." I think I might have a copy of 4.1's app folder on the same CD, but it's probably got the same issues...
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    Reinstalling an old app

    I'll dig a little more with the exe, but the thought had occured to me that the support files wouldn't be there (and that I shouldn't be able to open the folder in finder). I'll play with it some more, but I've got a bad feeling that my friend's going to get a tough lesson in testing backups...
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    Reinstalling an old app

    Whoops, I take that back, I wasn't paying attention, the other apps I copied over didn't work either :(. Darned if I know what to do here though.
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    Reinstalling an old app

    Hi all, trying to get Quarkexpress reinstalled for a friend. He'd copied the app folder to a dvd and stored it, and needs it reinstalled after a system crash (didn't save the original CD, he has been chided for this already :P). Anyway, OS X doesn't seem to realize it's a program. If I open up...
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