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

[macnerd <ma...@re...>]

Thanks.

I am forced to be in the Classic world because sometimes I need to test
scripts under Windows.  VPC is too sloooow under Mac OS X, and a tad bit
more smooth under Classic. :-\

 - Joaquin

PS - Another annoying thing I found is that you cannot take screen shots
of DVD movies under Mac OS X, but you can under Classic.  Hmm...

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Sent: Monday, March 11, 2002 10:53 AM
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Subject: Re: [MACTCL] How-to Changing Type/Creator?


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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