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From: jac%tut.cis.ohio-state.edu@osu-eddie.UUCP (Jim Clausing)
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Subject: Re: Request for DA able to edit file type and creator
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Date: Mon, 24-Aug-87 10:21:01 EDT
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In article <1599@ubc-cs.UUCP> rhone@ubc-csgrads.UUCP (Brock Rhone) writes:
>I need a DA that will allow me to change a file's type and creator.
>
>I have DiskInfo which *displays* these attributes but doesn't allow me
>to edit them.  I also have the shareware application MacSnoop (like
>FEdit) which does allow changing them, but it is an application, and a
>DA would be *much* more convenient, since I will have to do this quite
>often.
>
>Any information would be greatly appreciated.
>
>Brock Rhone				
I have used both DeskZap (posted to comp.binaries.mac a few months
back) and FileInfo (from Q&D Util. Vol. 1 by Dreams of the Phoenix)
to do just what you have requested.  That's all FileInfo does,
DeskZap does quite a bit more and is well worth it.
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