Re: [MacPerl-Porters] default type/creator

Thanks to all for the good explanations.
I have no problems to find or to set the proper type/creator
after the ftp download.

The question just came up because in my case I download
some hundred files which are purely binary. I don't want
to macbinarize them because of the extra time.

And - I could avoid explicitely setting type/creator if
MacPerl would use another default (not MPS /TEXT).

Let me speak in code:

  $ftp->get( $file );
  if( $file =~ /\.bin$/ ) { demacbin( $file  }
  else {
    # avoid TEXT type MacPerl sets by default
    MacPerl::SetFileInfo( '????', 'BINA', $file );
    # a global MacPerl preference for ????/BINA would be ideal
  }

I upload files with a resource fork as .bin files.
Files without a resource fork are uploaded without change.
After download I would end from nothing to MPS /TEXT.

If MacPerl doesn't know anything about a file I create
with Net::FTP should MacPerl set type to TEXT?


Just thinking about a really unimportant detail ... :)


Axel