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- From: waanders@umich.edu (Nicholas Waanders)
- Subject: Re: Setting File TYPE & CREATOR of created files
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- Date: Tue, 28 Jul 92 00:26:19 EDT
- Organization: University of Michigan
- References: <1992Jul27.171638.23170@aimla.com> <1992Jul28.114320.6080@csc.canterbury.ac.nz>
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- In article <1992Jul27.171638.23170@aimla.com>, mike@optimla.aimla.com
- (Mike Diehr) writes:
- >
- > Is there any way to set the TYPE and CREATOR of files created by
- > hypercard's "open file X ; write X to file fileName" commands?
- > I'd like to make the text files double-clickable into MPW instead
- > of teachtext.
- >
- In my investigation, there is no xcmd which will take a given file and
- change its TYPE and CREATOR. However, there are xcmds which give you
- more options for opening files, such as Rinaldi's FullSFPack (SF refers
- to the standard file dialog). However, even FullSFPack does not let you
- "type" the file. The only XCMD that I know of to do what you want is
- the WRITETOFILE xcmd which is part of the Dartmouth 3.4.3 set.
-
- Nick
-