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New Mac to Windows filenames
Got cornered at a party on Saturday by a person that's trying to make some macs peacefully coexist. Seems that Mac's don't require Word documents to have have a .doc extension and that they can have various other characters that windows pukes on. He was asking me if I could write a script (preferably bash) to rename the mac files on the server. Before embarking on such a path, I was hoping that someone already has something along these lines to do such.

Thanks.
New Possible AppleScript solution
[link|http://www.macwindows.com/convertr.html|AppleScript for Converting File Names]
Thomas C. Garc\ufffda, vice-president of ICON ( an Apple Reseller in the Caribbean and South Florida) has sent us an AppleScript that reads the type and creator codes of Mac files and adds the equivelent PC extension.

I'm not sure how compatible AppleScript is between OS 8.5 and OS X.
Darrell Spice, Jr.                      [link|http://spiceware.org/gallery/ArtisticOverpass|Artistic Overpass]\n[link|http://www.spiceware.org/|SpiceWare] - We don't do Windows, it's too much of a chore
New Forwarded on. Thanks.
Will see if that does the trick.
New Look at the MacFiles utility
lets you get creator code and other hfs flags from the command line.



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     Mac to Windows filenames - (ChrisR) - (3)
         Possible AppleScript solution - (SpiceWare) - (1)
             Forwarded on. Thanks. - (ChrisR)
         Look at the MacFiles utility - (tuberculosis)

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