Re: Changing file types

[Mitchell Spector <mitch2gs@hotmail.com>]

bb065@chebucto.ns.ca (Simon D. Williams) wrote:

>Are there any utilities that will do batch filetype changes? I've just
>transferred a mess of .wav files which all have type $00... I'd like to
>change them to BIN files, but the only way I've found is to do them one at
>a time with ProTerm (which could take weeks).

    Actually ProTERM (version 3.1 at least) handles batch filetype changes.
Simply go to the 'File' menu, select 'Set File Info' and when the dialog box
appears, press the space bar to mark each file (indicated by a checkmark).
Make sure to check-off the radio button "Use Same Info For All Files?".

    From there you just click 'Set Info', enter the filetype, auxiliary type
and access. This will change the filetype for ALL selected files. I used
this feature countless times in the past when downloading generic data 
files from my shell account to the IIgs's hardisk.

Mitchell Spector