Setting Mac OS File Type & Creator

[MisterX]

now i know what you need...

run a disk first aid first - common ailing of OS9's 

Then rebuild the desktop... (before teh finder arrives, press
command-option)

Then it should work momentarily better until you need to redo that op... 

One of the reasons i quit the mac was this - just was one more reason - and
i found it back in win95... grrr...

Today, i think the PC file type world is a mess... But it is easier to
manage than on any mac i've seen... No hidden props, extra programs, special
editors, etc... 

cheers
Xavier

> -----Original Message-----
> From: use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com 
> [mailto:use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of 
> Dan Shafer
> Sent: Monday, August 15, 2005 20:31
> To: Revolution List
> Subject: Setting Mac OS File Type & Creator
> 
> This ought to be duck soup. But it's turned into alligator 
> stew with a live alligator.
> 
> I have a custom property set to a file. I want to write this 
> file out to an OS 9 system so that it shows up in Finder as a 
> PDF file. From all I can gather, I have a two-line problem:
> 
>    set the fileType to "CAROPDF "
>    put PDFToOpen into URL "binfile:myFile.pdf"
> 
> But alas, this does not work. The file type and creator come 
> up empty. If I use ResEdit to set the file type and creator 
> as in the command above, the file becomes a PDF file that 
> Acrobat Reader recognizes. So I know I have the creator and 
> file type correct. Am I perhaps doing this in the wrong place?
> 
> A clue: ResEdit tells me the file I'm writing has no resource 
> fork. I was under the impression that using "binfile" solved 
> that problem?
> 
> I gather then that this has something to do with resfile: 
> types but I can't find anything in the docs about creating a 
> resource fork, only about copying them. But when I do a 
> getResources on an OS9 file, as far as I can tell, the type 
> and creator aren't stored in the resource fork (at least not 
> as identifiable resources), so I'm basically lost and under 
> very tight deadline.
> 
> 
> 
> 
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