Reinstalling an old app

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rsilvergun

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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 the folder and double click the executable (info says it's a Unix executable) osx tells me there's no program specified to open it. I've copied over a couple other apps just fine from the dvd, but this one just won't run. Do I have to do something special to tell osx to run it? I'm a Linux/BSD nerd, so I shelled to a terminal and played with the executable bit, but no dice. Any suggestions would be great. Thx again :).
 
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.
 
Programs like Quark, Photoshop etc, install support files also. You need to either copy ALL associated files or reinstall from the original discs.
 
It sounds as if the format wasn't saved in the process of burning - as if burned to a PC format or something. If the application appears as a folder and you simply get to the unix executable inside, something's wrong. My guess: The backup's no good at all.
 
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...
 
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. That leaves me wondering about fontographer. Oh well, I'll keep digging. Emulation maybe?
 
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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