Re: Prodos 8 : Easy to change filetypes ?

["John B. Matthews" <nospam@nospam.com>]

In article <Xns955DA0D1BD6B8Zoupla@212.27.42.66>,
 Zouplaz <pouet@pouet.com> wrote:

> Jayson Smith -
> nospamratguyspambegone@nospamplease.bellsouth.ihatespam.net : 
> 
> > If you have Davex available to you, I think it has a ftype command
> > which can be used to change the type of a Prodos file.  Davex is a
> > wonderful command line shell for Prodos.  Disk images of Davex can be
> > found at Asimov among other places probably.
> > Hope this helps.
> > Jayson.
> > 
> 
> Thank you
> 
> I've just tried another way : using the command line version 
> of AppleCommander under linux... Unfortunately, there is 
> something wrong somewhere : disk image created by this tool 
> are not recognized by PRODOS or GSOS and GSOS image formated 
> are note recognized by the tools...
> 
> What I don't understand is that I have few 2MG images that 
> ARE recognized by applecommander...
> 
> This could be a one in all solution because AppleCommander 
> allow to transfer AND set the filetype and auxtype at the 
> same time.
[...]

Can AppleCommander change the auxtype from the command line?

I am unable to reproduce this finding with either KEGS-OSX 0.65 
or KEGSMAC 0.86. When I execute the command

java -jar ac.jar -p800 test.po test

I am able to mount /TEST under both GSOS 6.0.1 and ProDOS 8 
2.0.3. I _did_ notice that the resulting file is a plain ProDOS 
order image; it does _not_ have the $04 (64) byte header 
associated with a .2mg format image.

Also, for a nice interactive tool, check out PFN:

http://kreative.superihost.com/cgi-bin/downloader.pl?pfn

John
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