Re: [MACTCL] How-to Changing Type/Creator?

[Jim I. <ji...@ap...>]

Note that type & creator bits are metadata stored with the file, so you
won't be able to do this on a read-only CD...

There are commands to modify creator & filetype in Classic MacTk, but I
haven't ported them over to Aqua yet.  Probably not too hard, but I haven't
needed it yet, so I haven't ported it.  But in general, the non-GUI parts of
MacTcl is just straightforward Unix.

For this sort of simple thing, find is easy enough...  For example, one easy
way to do this is:

find /Volumes/StartPoint -name \*.gif | xargs /Developer/Tools/SetFile -t
'xxxx' -c 'xxxx'

SetFile comes on the DeveloperTool CD.

Jim

> 
> Hello.
> 
> I have a major annoyance in that I have a CD of HTMLs and GIFs, which have
> generic TYPE/CREATORS.
> I would like to change this to TYPE/CREATOR of my choosing, so I want to
> create a tool that will walk
> through all of the directories.
> 
> I'm so new to the Mac scripting, so I was wondering if someone could tell me
> how can I change the
> type/creator and walk through the folders.  Do the folders look like UNIX
> directories in MacTCL?
> Are there symbolic . and ..?
> 
> thanx,
> Joaquin
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Jim Ingham                              ji...@ap...
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