on 12/08/01 22:31, Christopher Plummer at plumcakes_at_mac.com wrote:
> Well I thought I had reached my limit, but I have broken it and reached
> a new degree of frustration that I never knew existed. Packtype is
> probably a great utility. Somehow it doesn't work:
>
> Packtype appears to work under OS X classic; dragging and dropping into
> it looks like it does the job but it doesn't. It refuses to work in 9.1
> and 7.5.5. When files are dragged to it they just sit on top. Why
> would it look like it works in OS X classic but not work at all in 9.1
> especially since its not an OS X app? Did I miss something? Do I have
> to put Packtype in a special folder? How do you guys get .pkg files
> from the internet and get them to run on a Newton? I'm going to get
> some rest and try again in the morning.
You can always use ResEdit, a free resource editor from Apple. ResEdit has
the ability to edit the Finder information of any file, including the file
type and creator. For a Newton package, you need to set the file type to
'pkg ' (with a space at the end) and the file creator to '1NCU', both
without the quotes, of course. Type the type and creator exactly as they
appear here, with regard to lowercase and uppercase. That should work.
ResEdit is available from different places, the most recent version being on
the Apple web site, in the tools section of the developer section.
-Laurent.
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