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Message 33662 - Posted: 7 Oct 2004, 15:27:43 UTC

I've downloaded BOINC several times now, stuffit cannot open it and alerts me that the file is not compressed....OS 10.3.5
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Message 34418 - Posted: 9 Oct 2004, 11:09:49 UTC

hi booker, instead of using stuffit, just use terminal, and type in gunzip boinc.gz or whetever the full name is, and then chmod u+x boinc_4.09_powerpc-apple-darwin and your on your way!... Hope this helps... matt
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