I'm looking for help from anyone out there running Perl on a Mac OS X system:
I have written a perl script that runs on my OS X system (through the terminal), and produces a text output file that is meant to be later read by a Mac application (Filemaker Pro, which imports the data from the file into a database). The problem: When Perl creates the text file, it does not get assigned the proper 'file type'. Instead of being recognizable by the Mac system as a text file, it has the file type '????', and most Mac applications do not recognize it. Is there any way in perl (or UNIX) to change the file type of a newly created file without having to do it manually through the Mac GUI? I get the feeling that this problem has something to do with the unique way the Mac system assigns file types. Thanks! Beth Chaplin [Excuse me if this ends up posting twice. The first email I sent did not go through.] _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
