Re: not there yet (FAQ info)

[dirk@gaga.maschinenbau.uni-dortmund.de (Dirk Froehling)]

In article <19970325234900372753@dempson.actrix.gen.nz>,
dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) wrote:

>In the most convoluted case, I deliberately created a text file
>(SimpleText, if I remember right), verified it had no resource fork,
>manually set the file type and creator to TEXT/pdos, and copied it to a
>ProDOS disk.  No problem at all.  I also copied the SimpleText file (no
>resource fork, but creator was 'ttxt') and it ended up as an extended
>file with an empty resource fork.
>
>This proves that the wrong creator is sufficient to cause a problem.

ProTYPE doesn't touch the creator of a TEXT file if the file name doesn't
end in an extension it knows (like .txt, .bxy, .bsq etc.), it only strips
the resource fork and looks if it can extract a binscii'd file from it.
I guess it would be better to change the creator as well. I will implement
this in the next version.

Dirk

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