Re: Mac OS X Finder and changing extensions

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From: Chris Nandor
Subject: Re: Mac OS X Finder and changing extensions
Date: 16:12 on 02 Sep 2003
At 09:51 -0500 2003.09.02, Peter da Silva wrote:
>> The Mac-Carbon distribution (port of the MacPerl Mac:: extensions)
>
>That's jumping from the frying pan into the blast furnace. My mind doesn't
>work the way Larry Wall's does, so Perl isn't a nifty toolkit for me, it's
>the Valley of the Shadow of Death.

But it is used to create useful tools, like what I mentioned with
MacOSX-File, for which you don't need to use perl directly.  You just need
to install a perl distribution (I feel a hates software rant coming on ;-).


>> And, of course, there are the included programs in the Developer Tools,
>> GetFileInfo and SetFile (which the p[sg]etfinfo programs are modeled after).
>
>Guess I'll grovel around in there, do they call anything GCC isn't capable
>of getting me into?

They just call the standard Mac API, which is available to gcc, if that's
what you mean.  The code in both MacOSX-File and Mac-Carbon uses the same
or similar calls in their .xs files, if you want some C source (I am not
sure if GetFileInfo and SetFile have their source available).

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