Re: Need help with BSCit2.1 and changing file type

["Jeff Blakeney" <jeff.blakeney@a2central.com.remove-v1w-this>]

  To: Polymorph
On Tue, 10 Apr 2007 17:20:42 -0700, Polymorph wrote:

> Jeff I'm not sure if that's totally correct. In my case I *do* have to
> change the filetype as when a SHK archive is transferred using zmodem
> (using MMGR) it is saved with a TXT filetype. If I double click on the
> archive from within the finder with it set to a TXT filetype, it opens
> in Hermes (even with a .SHK appended to the end of the filename). As I
> mentioned in a previous posting, however, I was able to change the
> filetype to BIN or LBR and the file association would work (maybe it
> just has to be anything other than TXT?).

Yes, I just tried it again under KEGS and I believe Finder is allowing
other programs to take text files first so if a ShrinkIt file is in a
text file, it won't launch GSHK.  Most of my archives have the correct
file/aux types set ($E0/8002 for SHK, $E0/8000 for BXY) but I did have
one archive that was set to the unknown filetype ($00/0000) but had the
proper filename extension and it launched GSHK with no problem.

Perhaps you could tell MMGR to save to a different file/aux type or
better yet, have it strip Binary II wrappers (if it has that option) and
only give it Binary II wrapped archives (BXY files).
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