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

[Vicki Brown <vlb@cfcl.com>]

At 00:39 +0900 8/6/99, robinmcf@altern.org wrote:
> well I use Alpha ( http://www.bcity.com/alphatext) - which has lots of
> handy gismos amongst which is the ability to get at the file info to
> see/edit the creator code and file type,

True, BBEdit can't access the Type & Creator of a file from inside 
the file... but why should I care? A "Save As" changes type to TEXT 
and Creator to R*ch.

> which unlike BBedit, is shareware,

BBEdit Lite of course is free, but we digress... However the 
following brings us back on topic

> and doesn't require a C compiler to extend it's capabilities.

Neither does BBEdit, especially with the integrated MacPerl support 
in version 5.1.

C? Who uses C? :-)

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