Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] urgent: type/creator for excel files
From: Bill Studenmund (skippy@macro.stanford.edu)
Date: Wed Feb 25 1998 - 15:42:52 EST
On Wed, 25 Feb 1998, Jon Torrez wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Feb 1998, Vivek wrote:
>
> <WWW>That'll have the type/creator info you need. Alternatively, if you have
> <WWW>resedit on the Mac, you can use that.
>
>
> I am new; VERY NEW, to the MacOS system and of course resedit:
> where would I find this info in resedit?
Assuming you have ResEdit, go look on the File... menu. There's a Get
Info for This File, and a Get File/Folder Info command. The former works
on a file you've already opened, the latter on an unopened file. The
crator and type info will be obvious in the opened window.
Since you're new (and ask for advise :-), be careful w/ ResEdit. It's a
unix-like utility. It's a MacOS Application (windows, sensible views,
sensible menues, etc.), but it lets you get at the innards of things and
mess with them. It will also let you do stupid things (after asking, "Are
you sure" for some) since it can't tell the difference between something
stupid and something very clever. I've heard a quote where UNIX is
described just that way (letting you do both stupid and clever things).
Take care,
Bill
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