Help w MacRelix install

[Rick Lawson]

Cann anyone talk me through the iinstall of MacRelix on a OS9 system.
I downloaded a gzip which I got unzipped to a mBin extension. But when
I tried to drop that on top of MacBinary II nothing happened. I was
unable to run the other MacBinary utility posted on the site (OS9
thinks it is a quicktime file for some reason).

Thanks,
Rick

[Josh Juran]

Hi Rick,

Sorry for the confusion. The MacRelix download is a gzip-encoded
MacBinaryIII+ archive. (The '+' refers to an extension to MacBinary
to support nested directory hierarchies.) I use .mBin to avoid
ambiguity with .bin, but that results in a file without the correct
type and creator set. I'm thinking about how to deal with this
problem, but in the meantime I can suggest using ResEdit or another
tool that can change file type and creator.

If you set the type to 'BINA', you can expand it with either Peter N.
Lewis' MacBinary II+ or my own MacBinary III+ Decoder via drag-and-
drop. Or, set the type to 'BIN+' and creator to 'mBin' to set up the
correct association with MacBinary III+ Decoder (so it has the right
icon and you can double-click to expand it).

Another alternative is to run gunzip on Mac OS X and then `SetFile -t
BIN+ -c mBin $relix.mBin` before transferring the archive. Or,
download macbin and run `macbin --decode $relix.mBin` to expand it
from Terminal.

The good news is that once you do have MacRelix installed, you can
run `upgrade` to check for, download, and expand new versions.

Again, sorry for the confusion.

Josh