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

[pudge@pobox.com (Chris Nandor)]

At 16.04 7/2/97, D. Beverly wrote:
>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.

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