I haven't been able to search the list archives. Neither <http://bumppo.net/search/macperl.html> nor the Sherlock plugin will work for me.
So, still open to suggestions on my previous question. Richard Cook wrote: > > Hi there, > > I set the creator/type of a file likeso: > > my $of = "extract.u8"; > open OF, "> $of" > or die "cannot create `$of': $!"; > my @creator = qw(LING McPL TBB6 MOSS); > #0 #1 #2 #3 > MacPerl::SetFileInfo($creator[0], "TEXT", $of); > > and after perl writes the data to OF, I'd like perl to tell the creator > app (in this case "LING") to open $of. The creator app is not apple > scriptable, though I guess this might not matter, if perl can tell the > finder to tell the app. to open the file. > > Does someone here have example code? > > -Richard