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From: bmug@garnet.berkeley.edu (BMUG)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Setting File Type and Creator Query
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Date: 15 Mar 89 17:48:11 GMT
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In article <160700013@primerd> barry@primerd.prime.com writes:
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>Apologies if this has been covered before ...
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>How do I change the Type and Creator of a file?  
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>         Barry
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The best way is probably to use either DiskTop or DiskTools II (both
commercial products, available everywhere).  Among other things, they
allow you to do a Get Info on any file and change the type, creator,
and set various bits.  There are also other utilities (Disk Ranger,
I think, will do this) that allow you to globally change every
instance of a type/creator combo on your disk to something else.

Standard disclaimers apply...

John Heckendorn
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