Way to retrieve creator-type of OS X files?

[Sarah Reichelt]

> I've seen lots of documentation on how to SET creator-types in Mac OS 
> X for
> new files that are being downloaded by Revolution, but I'm having 
> trouble
> finding the command that will tell you the file/creator code of a 
> pre-existing
> file on a Mac OS X hard-drive.  Can anyone tell me what that command  
> is?
>
> For instance, if I've got a Rev app that uploads a series of jpg, 
> gifs,  psd,
> illustrator files, etc to a server, I'd like to preserve all those  
> filetypes
> when they get downloaded again with Revolution.  I'd like a means  of
> automating this so I don't have a giant if-then statement of 
> extensions and
> creator-codes.

Not really what you asked, but it may solve your problem: on OS X, if 
you set the filetype to empty before saving a file, OS X will allocate 
it to the relevant app using the file extension. The benefit of this is 
that you don;t have to guess what your users have installed e.g Preview 
or Adobe, Safari or Internet Explorer.

Cheers,
Sarah