Just wondering if anyone has a script or knows of a program that will
go thru and read the resource forks of files and add the specific
extension to the file?
So, you might want to explain us what resource forks have to do with
the file extension. While the resouce fork is just part of the
contents, the extension is some (primitve) sort of meta data.
That said, perhaps you want the "Type" and "Creator" meta data/Finder
info mapped to a file extension. Obviously, you need some mapping
table, then. I'm not aware of one and surely, there doesn't exist a
universal one.
If you have Developer Tools installed, there's /Developer/Tools/SetFile
and /Developer/Tools/GetFileinfo to get you started. On Classic Mac OS,
there were some System Extensions to do this mapping but to best of my
knowledge, this part of the OS didn't make it over to Mac OS X.
Moving away from AFP to SMB...
... doesn't prevent you from using/storing Finder info and resource
forks. They are just stored some other way.
... won't work correctly unless you put the extension on the ends of
the file names.
This might be the case for quite some combinations of documents and
applications but isn't always the case. Some apps insist on Finder
info, others insist on a resource fork.
<winmail.dat>
*sigh* Apple should reconsider wether they allow attachments on their
lists.
