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HexEdit

hexadecimal file editor handles both data & resource forks

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Re: Gordon Alley

Feedback Type: Commentary

Contributed by: Mark Douma Thursday, October 28 2004 @ 08:01 AM PDT

Product Platform: MacOS,MacOSX

Used Product For: Over One Year

Recommend Product: YES

I'm guessing that you have Stuffit Expander 8.0.0.

HexEdit Fat is a single-file, dual-fork CFM Carbon application, while HexEdit.app is a bundle-style Mach-O application.

The archive that's provided is a .sit archive. Stuffit Expander 8.0.0 didn't, by request from Apple, set the executable bits of files that were expanded.

Mach-O executables need to have their executable bits set to run properly, while permissions on CFM applications are simply ignored. That's why the CFM one runs, and the Mach-O one doesn't.

You can get the latest version of Stuffit which should expand the archive "properly" and cause the app to run correctly.

Hope this helps....