Thanks Dominic and John. After playing around with it a little, the
type attribute must be "TEXT". I guess I can just do a call to system
() to set this. Thank you for your help.
Joe.
[PowerBook-G4:~/Desktop] jja% /Developer/Tools/GetFileInfo c.txt
file: "/Users/jja/Desktop/c.txt"
type: ""
creator: ""
attributes: avbstclinmedz
created: 06/01/2006 17:58:50
modified: 06/08/2006 11:42:04
[PowerBook-G4:~/Desktop] jja% /Developer/Tools/SetFile -t "TEXT" c.txt
[PowerBook-G4:~/Desktop] jja%
On Jun 8, 2006, at 11:05 AM, Dominic Dunlop wrote:
On 2006–06–08, at 17:20, Joseph Alotta wrote:
I am trying to read a CSV data file of names and addresses into
Now Contact. However the import feature does not see this file as
it is ghosted. My conclusion is that it is looking at the file
creator information.
How do I see this information? Apple-i, Get Info, does not show
this. How can I inspect these file attributes and how can I
modify them with perl?
Firstly, I'd try giving the files a ".txt" extension. That might
persuade Now Contact of their acceptability.
If that doesn't work, you need the to use the MacPerl module:
$ perl -MMacPerl -lwe 'print join " ", MacPerl::GetFileInfo
("Desktop/random.tif")'
GKON TIFF
The corresponding interface to set the signature is
MacPerl::FSpSetFInfo -- see the man page for details. (Although
MacPerl is part of the Tiger essentials package, you have to load
the optional BSD package to get the man page. But, as a Perl
developer, you'll have done that.)
Finally, if this is a one-off job, you can do things by hand with
the GetFileInfo and SetFile utilities from Apple's developer tools.
They live in /Developer/Tools. Again, see the man pages for details.
--
Dominic Dunlop
