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Migration to Tiger


All,
        I hope some one can enlighten me quickly, otherwise I'll be burning up my keyboard scripting in the next two weeks.  
        I'm migrating a PrePress environment from OS 9 to Tiger (10.4.8).  One of the 'opportunities' I'm confronting is how the finder is not recognizing files of the OS 9 genre (dual-forked) without a suffix.  I've got gigs upon gigs of files that are in this format that the PrePress folks will have to access for years to come.  I think I'm looking for a quick and easy way to convert these files from dual-forked to data only files on the fly.  These files are mixed containing some multiple file types, such as PDF, tiff, eps, psd, txt, etc. , unfortunately, Finder sees them all as unix executables because they don't have suffixes, or at least, most don't.
        I can probably write something that looks at each file and algorithmically determines what suffix should go with it, and just rename the file, but that could be a bit of a bear, but if that's what I'm relegated to doing, sobeit..... but, thought someone on this list might know of something that's much more efficient and more precise than anything I might come up with.  Any brilliant ideas?


Jack Lehr (email@hidden)
(813) 635-3360 (O)
(813) 767-6542 (M)
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