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Cowry User's Guide

Cowry is an application to install, update and manage applications and other software packages on your Mac. Cowry features a new packaging format (.cwz) for distributing Mac software over the Internet. The Cowry application allows you to inspect and extract/install these packages.

The current version of the Cowry application has two functions:

Installing applications delivered in the .cwz format.
Inspecting applications already installed on your Mac, similar to a "More info" in the Finder.

Future versions of Cowry will also allow you to see a list of installed applications and to check for new versions of those applications.

The following sections cover the Cowry 0.1 release in more detail.

Installing Cowry: Instructions for installing Cowry for the first time.
Using .cwz archives: How to install an application from a .cwz archive
Inspecting Installed Applications: Using Cowry to inspect an alrady-installed application.

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