I'm looking for help from anyone out there running Perl on a Mac OS X
system:

I have written a perl script that runs on my OS X system (through the
terminal), and produces a text output file that is meant to be later read by
a Mac application (Filemaker Pro, which imports the data from the file into
a database).

The problem: When Perl creates the text file, it does not get assigned the
proper 'file type'. Instead of being recognizable by the Mac system as a
text file, it has the file type '????', and most Mac applications do not
recognize it. Is there any way in perl (or UNIX) to change the file type of
a newly created file without having to do it manually through the Mac GUI? I
get the feeling that this problem has something to do with the unique way
the Mac system assigns file types.

Thanks!

Beth Chaplin


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