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

[jay.bedsole@motorola.com]

Sean writes:

> (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.)

Since we're talking about an email program, I suspect that
the files are of type TEXT. The creator code is probably
that of MS Word (MSWD?). If this is the case, changing the
creator is all that you need to do. It's unlikely that the
files are in MS Word binary format... unless we're talking
about attachments - then that's a whole new ball game.

Joshua's MOG script will do the trick, though it's a little
over the top and not too friendly to this specific task. I
suspect Nick would prefer to have a script that doesn't
require any user input. I've got a much smaller droplet that
does what you want (I think). I'll be happy to post it, but
it will have to wait until tomorrow because it's at home and
I'm not.

jay

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