Re: [MacPerl] MacPerl::SetFileInfo Help (fwd)

["D. Beverly" <slowdive@mindspring.com>]

Some time around 7/2/97 5:15 PM , Chris Nandor wrote something about

>>open ( OUT, ">$myNewFile" );
>># do stuff to the file
>>MacPerl::SetFileInfo ( 'ALFA', 'TEXT', $myNewFile );
>>close ( OUT );
>>
>>does not always result in what I want, which is an Alpha text file, in
>>this case.  Sometimes the resulting file is an MPW text file.  If the
>>Finder says it didn't work, then it didn't.  The desired effect was not
>>achieved.
>
>That is not necessarily the case.  The Finder can incorrectly report the
>file type.

The only time I've ever seen Finder incorrectly report a file type was 
when an app had poorly implemented 'BNDL' and 'FREF' resources that 
confused Finder as to what types of files it supports.  I had this 
problem when I was receiving files made by the freeware DropStuff app, 
while I use StuffIt Deluxe - the Finder reported these files as plain 
documents and displayed their type as 'SITx', which is supposed to be the 
file type for corrupted .sit files, according to Aladdin (it was a while 
ago, so I don't remember the specifics, but I had a week-long 
correspondence with a helpful tech there that resolved this for me).

At any rate, and more to the point, if Finder incorrectly reports a file 
type, it also incorrectly sends that file to whatever app it thinks made 
that file when you 2click, so the result is, again, not the desired one, 
and the fact that Finder is incorrectly reporting the file type becomes 
academic.  I care about results, not reports.

Mark Manning wrote at 7/2/97, 2:13 p.m.
[snip]
>You just ensure
>that the file is there before you start attempting to do
>anything with the file.
[snip]
> I really do not see this as a serious
>bug.  I see it as that is just how the OS works.

That works for me.

Dave Beverly
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