Re: [MacPerl] beginner's q...

[Sean Carte <SeanC@mediatek.co.za>]

>I'm rather new to perl. My problem is my email program saves files as MS Word
>documents, and they're far more useful as SimpleText documents. How would 
>I go
>about a quick and dirty perl program to cange the file types?

Joshua Gemmell's Mog is a droplet that changes the file-type/creator of 
files:
http://www.macperl.com/depts/Code/

(But merely changing the type/creator of a MS Word document will probably 
result in an unreadable mess. You'd probably be better off scripting a 
word-processor to read in the file and save it as text.)

My brain hurts!
SeanC
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