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Re: Modify file type/creator from AS?
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Re: Modify file type/creator from AS?


  • Subject: Re: Modify file type/creator from AS?
  • From: Philip Aker <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 08 May 2008 04:22:21 -0700

On 08-05-07, at 21:43, Mark J. Reed wrote:

Any other tips for reconstructing a file from separate data/resource forks? The info and creator are in the resource fork, but copying it to filename/rsrc doesn't set them, unfortunately. Doesn't look like ditto will do what I"m looking for. Ironically, there's a Linux utility that will do the trick but it doesn't seem to be available for OS X, at least not via fink or macports.

(I've got some old ZIP discs formatted for PC and written from OS 9; I was apalled to find out that OS X doesn't understand OS 9's way of splitting forks on FAT filesystems. So I'm going through and matching RESOURCE.FRK/FILENA~1 files to their corresponding full filenames (stored as null-terminated strings starting at byte 49 in the resource files, apparently), copying to .../filename/rsrc, and setting the info
to match...)


Probably what you want to use for your google search is "../ namedFork". However I think as of Leopard this ability has been killed by the brain-dead NeXTies. So maybe your only chance is to use Rezilla or something similar.


Philip Aker echo email@hidden@nl | tr a-z@. p-za-o.@

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