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From: friedman@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (Daniel Friedman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Setting File Type and Creator Query
Message-ID: <3491@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu>
Date: 15 Mar 89 21:22:21 GMT
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Reply-To: friedman@uhccux.UUCP (Daniel Friedman)
Organization: University of Hawaii
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In article <822@umn-d-ub.D.UMN.EDU> jness@ub.d.umn.edu.UUCP (Joel Ness) writes:
>You can set file and creator type using several utilities, including the
>DiskTop DA (highly recommended). But to bring up a larger point - Does
>anyone know of a utility that will batch change file and creator types?
>This goes to a problem that was asked on the net a few weeks ago. It
>would be very handy to point to a folder, or select a group of files,
>and change file and/or creator type all at once. If this doesn't exist,
>does any wiz out there want to be a hero and write one?

Widgets, which comes bundled with DiskTop, does what you want.