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From: hg@cbnewsh.att.com (henry.grebe)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript,comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Help with PS to EPSF
Keywords: Microsoft Word, Adobe Illustrator, PostScript printers
Message-ID: <1991Mar21.133416.11375@cbnewsh.att.com>
Date: 21 Mar 91 13:34:16 GMT
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I'm a UNIX programmer who bought a Mac II for the fun of it.
It is a lot of fun, but I'm a bit baffled by the way every
file created on the Mac seems to be tagged by the application
it was created by.  Is there a way around this?

For example, I have some plain PostScript files that I am
editing in Microsoft Word 4.0.  My intention is to make them
look like EPSF files so that Adobe Illustrator and a TI microLaser
printer will recognize and print them out.  Also, I have many
plain PS files (simple %! headers) on my Sun system that I'd
like to port over to the Mac.  But, when I edit the files in Word,
the resulting file has a "W" icon, and is identified as a MicroSoft
word document.  How do Mac users deal with so many file types!

So, are there other text editors that do not add hidden ID tags
on them the way Word does?  Or do I have to get A/UX in order to
get a handle on things?

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