On 02/02/2003 at 13:33 -0500, Beth Chaplin wrote:
I assume you have the Developer Tools installed. These install a pair of tools called SetFile and GetFile Info: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.
blech@piezo:~$ /Developer/Tools/SetFile --help
Usage: SetFile [option...] file...
-c creator # file creator
-t type # file type
(Edited for space. There are many more options.)
For example, "/Developer/Tools/SetFile -t 'TEXT' -c 'R*ch' new.txt" will make BBEdit the default application for opening the text file "new.txt".
However, under Mac OS X, you should also be able to get away with merely setting a text extension. For a full description of how double-clicking a file chooses which application handles it, you'll want to examine the Launch Services documentation:
http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn/tn2017.html
You might also want to look at the [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list:
http://lists.perl.org/showlist.cgi?name=macosx
Cheers,
--
:: paul
:: we're like crystal
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