Re: [NTLK] Package types not recognized by NCU

From: Norman Palardy (palardyn_at_shaw.ca)
Date: Mon Jul 14 2003 - 07:37:09 PDT


On Monday, July 14, 2003, at 02:40 AM, Glen Swanson wrote:

> Having failed to get AppleTalk to work under OSX I'm moving on to other
> issues.
> I'm now having trouble trying to get the package types to convert to
> the
> format that NCU can recognize. In both OS9 and OSX, the packages are
> incorrect and I can't seem to fix them with the PackType utility. I've
> tried
> downloading it from different sources and running it in both OSs, but
> still
> no luck. Any ideas on how I could have Newton packages reassigned their
> correct values so that they can be seen as NCU packages and not
> Macintosh
> packages?
> Thanks

I have a small Applescript that I use for exactly this purpose.
You drop your package on it and it changes the Type and Creator Code to
those for a Newton Package.

I'll send it if you think it would be useful to you.

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