Subject: Re: Can't mount .img file
From: Rick Eisner (rick_eisner@bigfoot.com)
Date: Wed May 24 2000 - 00:55:44 MDT
> > Apologies for my most newbie of questions, but:
>>
>> I've downloaded the two .img files (ydl-cs-1.2-install.img and
>> ydl-cs-1.2-tasty.img).
>>
>> But my Mac insists they're not image files. System 8.6 sees them as
>> SimpleText files, and says they're too big to open in SimpleText.
>> System 9.0.4 sees them as GraphicConverter files, and says that
>> GraphicConverter doesn't have enough RAM to open them. I'm running
>> a PowerTower 604 with 80 MB RAM.
>>
>> So how can I get these files to mount on my machine?
>>
>> Rick
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>> -----
>> Rick Eisner
>> rick_eisner@bigfoot.com
>
>Rick,
>
>I've run into similar problems using Netscape 4.72 under MacOS 9.0.2.
>I've started using Internet Explorer 5.0 to download files from the Web
>and that seems to work much better. Another option might be to use
>something like ResEdit or FileBuddy to make sure that the file type is
>set correctly.
>
>Randy
Randy,
File Buddy is a good idea, but... What should the file type and
creator actually be?
Rick
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