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Subject: Re: gnat for MacOS Tiger? [OT]
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2006 16:05:33 +0100
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On 15/8/06 11:15, in article YtGdnYdISJojA3zZnZ2dnUVZ_o2dnZ2d@comcast.com,
"David Shochat" <shochatd@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Simon Williams wrote:
>> For what its worth the link is fine (i just downloaded it and checked
>> it).  I think what happened is he double clicked on the downloaded app
>> and didnt have stuffit decompressor on his system so it guessed (wrong)
>> and brought up office.
>> 
> I think this is probably true. <OT rant> I now have the Stuffit
> Expander, but I think it's ridiculous for it to just guess like that. It
> should have simply stated that I needed to get Stuffit Expander and
> ended it right there
> And even if it were an Office document,
> it's yet another absurd leap to simply assume that I want to download a
> trial copy of MS Office. What if I want to use NeoOffice instead (which
> I would)? </OT>

As far as I know, 
OS X does *not* download Stuffit, MS, or any other software; unasked.

If your Mac is like mine,
it already had a trial copy of MS Office on its HD at time of purchase.
If that had claimed the file type for itself,
it would have been invoked (quite correctly) by OS X.

Perhaps Office then tried to download an update of itself,
or something of that kind.

-- 
Bill Findlay
<surname><forename> chez blueyonder.co.uk