Re: [MacPerl-Toolbox] Moving files from:End

[John W Baxter <jwblist@olympus.net>]

At 11:44 -0400 7/20/99, Chris Nandor wrote:
>At 11.31 -0400 1999.07.20, John W Baxter wrote:
>>At 15:20 +0100 7/20/99, jean-michel meyer wrote:
>>>
>>>It was just not possible to recover folder icon directly before moving
>>>files to a new folder using a MP script.
>>>Has somebody an idea about that ?
>>>
>>
>>It should be possible...the icon is simply a bit in the folders Finder
>>information, plus an invisible file named Icon<CR> (Icon folllowed by a
>>proper ASCII CR character <no relation to "newline" except by accident>).
>
>Sometimes, I don't know why, some file operations fail on filenames
>containing newlines.

Hmmm...perhaps that's why I sometimes see the Icon<CR> files renamed to
Icon_ ???

One could try doing that rename, then copy the renamed file, then changing
the name back.

  --John

-- 
John Baxter   jwblist@olympus.net      Port Ludlow, WA, USA

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