Uploading/Decoding Contribs

[lildog]

I have recently uploaded a number of useful contributions, updates mods etc. Not many people can use them because of a decoding error. I am on a mac and I have uploaded the contribs as zip files. How the heck can I make it so these PC's can read them? I have almsot ZERO knowledge of what is going on. Most people report a T_REQUIRE error. One guy said something about uploading binary mode, but since I upload via the site I have no option of mode. Macs do not suffer this problem I can decode almost anything and it is useable everything but apps. What's up? I do believe the PC's can do it, just the users don't know what or how to do it. Any help would be great. I hate to have 'bad' software out there and I cannot keep answering petty questions.

 

lildog

[Jan Zonjee]

I have recently uploaded a number of useful contributions, updates mods etc. Not many people can use them because of a decoding error. I am on a mac and I have uploaded the contribs as zip files. How the heck can I make it so these PC's can read them? I have almsot ZERO knowledge of what is going on. Most people report a T_REQUIRE error.

Never heard that one before. I use a Mac too and the only problem with the built-in zip function of the Mac is the fact that it adds files (.DS_Store for example) to the zip that the PC-user can see and that is puzzling if you don't know what they are. Therefore I use CleanArchiver for making those zips.

I also try to make sure that the encoding is kept iso-8859-1 and line breaks Unix style. You can use TextWrangler (from the same company that makes BBEdit) to change that if necessary.