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Old February 18th, 2006
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Hello,
I've been reading this few posts on how to recognize stuf for mac or not for mac (that is the question!)... I find myself times and times over, with downloaded documents (mostly wares or prog) advertized "OSX" or "Mac osx" etc., and even on the right format for it: dmg or sit or sitx even! (and of course under zip, rar, tar, also), but which, when unsitXed or dmged, appear to contain only 1 exe doc (unreadable on dos) and a license, openable with textEdit!... how would so many people play such a trick? the reason given in one of the posts (for people having a Mac at home, but working on PC at work) seems very nice indeed, but maybe a bit unreallistic, in view of the enormous amount of cases of that type... I must add that I see that sort of thing 70% of times on Lime Wire, but have very rarely seen it on overnet or eDonkey... are some others have had the same problem? I would be very intriged to have a proper answer... and it would also certainly help not to loose time running after a wrong hare!... thanks
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