Re: AppleWorks --> Mac

[dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson)]

In article <carrk-1208961659420001@kagunij3.bch.msu.edu>,
carrk@pilotc.msu.edu (Kevin M. Carr) wrote:

>Actually, it can, I just checked this out.  With ClarisWorks 3.0, it
>_does_ recognize the newer version of the Filetype notation (creator =
>pdos; type = pXXX, where XXX is the binary encoding of the Apple ][ type
>and auxtype.)  I don't know if versions of ClarisWorks before 3.0 were
>able to handle this filetype notation.

Aha!  Thanks for the correction.  I must have last tried this with
ClarisWorks 1.0 or 2.0.

(I'll be getting ClarisWorks Office 4 in the near future, so I can try it
again then.)

>ResEdit will accept these strange characters as is; the problem is how can
>you correct them since you can't type these characters from the keyboard.
>So long as you have one good AWP (or ASP or ADB) file still on your Mac
>hard drive you can open the info window in ResEdit, copy the filetype info
>and then paste that into filetype entry for the damaged files.

Snitch can do this as well.

Perhaps a little Mac "ProDOS File Type Setter" utility program might be useful?

(A simple user interface which provides fields to select standard ProDOS
file types and auxiliary types from pop-ups or by entering arbitrary
hexadecimal values, getting the database from GS/OS's FType.Apple file,
though distributing that file may require licensing...)

For that matter, why is there no software on the IIgs (that I know of)
which can display the HFS file type and creator (which are buried in the
extended key block)?

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David Empson
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