[X-Unix] Any way to email a doubleclickable shell script?

Lasse jakobsen.lasse at euro.apple.com
Wed Jan 23 15:10:30 PST 2008


Or send an installer.pkg that'll install a .coomand script onto the  
users desktop?

Den 23/01/2008 kl. 23.07 skrev Richard Hartman:

>
> On Jan 23, 2008, at 3:06 PM, Jerry Krinock wrote:
>
>> I've created a shell script, actually a perl script, and given it  
>> a .command extension, so it executes on my Mac when I doubleclick it.
>>
>> I'd like to email it to a non-Terminal-savvy user.  But when I  
>> attach the file to an email, send it, receive it, and save the  
>> attachment to the desktop, the email client (Microsoft Entourage)  
>> writes it with octal '644' permissions, so it won't execute.
>>
>> Is there any way around this?
>>
>
> Can you zip it and attach the zip? (Maybe apple's zip doesn't  
> preserve permissions?)
>
>
>
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