Re: converting TTs

[reevess@cse.fau.edu (Steve Reeves)]

In article <1993May29.162030.4385@ornl.gov> jlcooper@sacam.OREN.ORTN.EDU (Jonathan L Cooper) writes:
>it's also not a problem...  but you _do_ have to change the file type. 
>unless you're sure the file in question is a single truetype font, you
>need to change the type to FFIL and the creator to DMOV.  this will turn
>it into a suitcase file, which you can simply drop on your system folder
>in sys 7, or use font/da mover to access.  if you're using system 7, you
>can also change a single truetype font to type ffil, creator movr.  this
>is a single font file, which became popular with sys 7, much less so with
>7.1. 
>
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Some (barely) related questions: is there a canonical list of all Macintosh
filetype and creator codes (such as the ones above)?  Is there a GS
utility that can modify filetype and creator codes of files on HFS disks?

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Steve Reeves
reevess@cse.fau.edu