site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev@lists.apple.com User-agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (Windows/20070728) bert wrote:

OK... I figured out that I should be using CpMac from /Developer/Tools to copy app bundles. I found this out while reading about cp at

http://developer.apple.com/documentation/MacOSX/Conceptual/BPFileSystem/Arti...

coming from Win XP and Linux, I have a really hard time understanding how copying an application can break it so badly that it starts to crash ... can anyone shed some light on this?

Most likely you have resource forks in there somewhere. Resource forks are bad news these days, and naturally won't survive any kind of copying to Windows unless you use pax or dmg or some other archiver. Do this: find . -type f -exec ls {}/rsrc \; and look for a size greater than zero. Of course if your resources are missing, your app is likely to crash. -- Gary Oberbrunner _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Installer-dev mailing list (Installer-dev@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/installer-dev/site_archiver%40lists.a... This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com