At 12:01 PM 19/12/02 -0800, Jake Stickelmeyer jstickel-at-olypen.com wrote: >What's a creator code and how would I change that?
If you want to mess with type/creator codes under OS 7-9, Filetyper, at http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~dazuma/filetyper/ is very good and has a lot of docs to explain the process. But, I don't think this will help your problem. Changing these changes what applications can see or be "allowed" to try to open the file -- but you said IE and Netscape already tried to do that. It sounds very much to me as though these "html" files are either badly messed up or not html at all. Which is why I've suggested several times now that you use BBedit to open them and look at what's in the file -- if you see HTML codes -- things like <html>, <title>, etc, and more or less readable text, it's html of some kind. (If it's a binary file you can usually see some kind of "signature" in the beginning of the file with the application's name. For instance if it's a JPEG image you would see something like "JFIF" and "Photoshop".) It may well be something completely different, such as a Word file, and the person who made it imagined that simply by renaming it as html it would magically become so (I've seen this happen many times) -- but unfortunately this fools the Mac into trying to interpret it as html, which of course fails. If you have Word, it should be able to try to open the file (there is an "open any file" option on the file menu). That's probably the simplest thing to try. -- The iMac List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | - Epson Stylus Color 580 Printers - new at $69 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> iMac List info: <http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/imac-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
