Re: [MacPerl-AnyPerl] Install MacPerl on Freebsd

[email protected] (Chris Nandor) Thu, 27 Jan 2005 16:16:06 -0800
Newsgroups perl.macperl.anyperl
Message-ID <p06110427be1f346be9b8@[10.0.1.177]>
At 15:43 -0700 2005.01.27, Aaron Siegel wrote:
>I would like the ability to extract the creator and file type from the file so
>I can automate the renaming of Macintosh filenames to Windows filenames.
>MacPerl::GetFileInfo

Once that file is on a non-Mac system, that information no longer exists,
in most cases, as it is stored in a special metadata file on the system,
and when you copy that file to a non-Mac system, it is left behind.

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