Classic Menu for Mac OS X; UNIX-like installation procedure noted

Classic Menu 1.0 is a program for Mac OS X (Developer Preview 4) which provides an Apple menu just as the one in Mac OS 9. Put aliases of your favorite items in the Classic Menu Items folder and they will appear in a menu on the right edge of the menu bar. We believe this is the first end-user Mac OS X utility we have listed here at MacFixIt! Of interest is the UNIX-like procedure needed to install the utility. It is not nearly as convenient as simply dragging a Mac OS 9 extension to the System Folder (or having an Installer utility that does it for you). We hope this does not represent the method that will be required for installing similar utilities in the release version of Mac OS X: After downloading, Classic Menu should be installed from within OS X as follows: Open a terminal window in Terminal.app (located in System: Administration:). Navigate to the directory in which you placed the classicmenu.tar.gz file using the cd command. Use the command tar -xzf classicmenu.tar.gz to extract the files. Check a new directory named Classic Menu 1.0 was created using the ls command. Close the terminal window and open the newly-created Classic Menu 1.0 folder in the Finder. If the Finder has not noticed the newly-created folder, log out and log in again. We asked Gideon Greenspan, the author of the program, to reply on this matter. He wrote: "The problem was that I needed a way to create a single downloadable package for distribution from the Web site. As far as I know, there are currently no GUI decompression utilities which run natively on OS X (and I couldn't imagine forcing someone to fire up the Classic environment), so there was no option but to use Unix compression technology (thus .tar.gz). I'm sure Aladdin or someone else will create a simple decompressor for OS X by the time it reaches public beta. And I just saw MindVision released a new version of Installer VISE [see Utilities Updates below] which will make things simpler (although we still need a way to distribute an Installer in a single downloadable file)." Update: Kyle Johnson notes: "Stepwise already offers a utility called OpenUp for OS X Server that should run under OS X DP4. It is a GUI interface for TAR and GZ files. In addition, Apple includes Installer.app with OS X Server that will install NeXT style 'packages.' In fact, the OpenUP installer is just such a package." Note: See this Ars Technica article for a detailed look at Mac OS X DP4.