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From: jlw@lzga.ATT.COM (Joe Wood)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Bulk file type/creator changing
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Date: 23 Jan 90 14:59:48 GMT
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Reply-To: jlw@lzga.UUCP (Joe Wood)
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>>      Can someone direct me to a Macintosh utility that will change file types
>> and creators _in_bulk_?
>
>You want the "FileMaster" DA.  It's available from
>sumex-aim.stanford.edu in info-mac/da.  I don't have the exact name
>handy, but you ought to be able to locate it easily.
>

I need something more fundamental than this.  I would like a list of
the four character codes for file types and creators.  I would also like
a big matrix giving compatibility among types and applications.  Last
week I picked up some Encapsulated Post Script files from the Princeton Mac
User's group archives, but PSsend won't display them on the file selection
window.  I also got a humungus file for Inside Macintosh from this source
which is called the manual.  I can't for the life of me take a look at it.
MacWrite bombs and resets my SE.  Late last night I looked at the
file type and creator and the creator was MPS.  Is this PostScript output
from a word processor?  Am I only able to print the whole thing or abort
the print after seeing the first few pages???

I am but an egg.

Joe Wood
jlw@lzga.ATT.COM