RUNNING DOWNLOADED SOFTWARE?

[nahoo7]

I tried downloading software of the net,unpacked it and then copied it to a cd.when i put it in the amiga cd-rom no files showed up.I clicked on show all files and doubled-clicked the executable file.But got a requester"non executable file error code 10">
Is their something else I have to do or is their another program I have to run before hand,or do I have to assign something.
I am novice at amigas thank you.

[Vincent]

nahoo7 wrote:
I tried downloading software of the net,unpacked it and then copied it to a cd.when i put it in the amiga cd-rom no files showed up.I clicked on show all files and doubled-clicked the executable file.But got a requester"non executable file error code 10">
Is their something else I have to do or is their another program I have to run before hand,or do I have to assign something.
I am novice at amigas thank you.

It won't be an assign missing (that error would be something like "cannot find..." or "place volume ... in any drive").  It could be a problem with the archive itself, or the unpacker was an older version.  Or that there was a problem burning to cd.

[Thomas]

You should write the archive to CD and unarchive it on the Amiga. Amiga archives usually contain some file attributes not supported on Windows.

Bye,
Thomas

[seer]

Depends also on what he downloaded. ADF's ? Or "plain" programs..

If they are ADF's, you need to write those to disk with a program called something like ADF2Disk..

If they are normal programs, copy them to disk and make sure they still have the executable flag set..

[nahoo7]

Hello,thanks for your reply,the programs aren`t ADF,they are normal.Dumb question:but how do i know if the executable flags are set.thanks

[replicated]

Ok its been some time since i used a real amiga so I might be wrong, first if you cant see icons then there are no .info files. These tell workbench how to lanch the file; stack, tool types etc. Your error might be due to the lack of this information. U could try running the progs from the cli this may give a more information. Hope this helps.

[replicated]

Sorry forgot to mention get dopus version 4 is free. You can set file flags etc.

[seer]

Well you may want to do what Thoas suggests, otherwise;

Open a CLI or SHELL, go to the dir where you put the files (copied from the CD) and type "protect [filename] +e"

This from memorie, so I might be a bit off..

Or depending on the OS version, select the file in the workbench, press A+i and select the flags you want to set, and then save.. AFAIK OS3.X creates a .info file then for it.. Nut sure if that's 3.5 or lower tho..

[Ryu]

I hope we are discussing legitimatly downloaded software here...

[nahoo7]

Okay thanks for your help guys i`ll try these suggestions and the links were from this site so Ihope they were legal.Thanks again.

[Holley]

Oh, and one other thing, if you were using the regular version of LHA for PCs it'll have truncated the filenames, too!! (another good reason for unpacking on the Amiga ;-))