MacPerl for Freebsd: Convert Macintosh files

[Aaron Siegel]

I am not really trying to convert, but automate the renaming of Macintosh 
files.  I would like to extract the information stored within the fork of a 
Macintosh file and then rename the file to a Windows file naming scheme.  The 
Mac distribution of Perl has those capabilities with included in the MacPerl 
module. 


On Thursday 27 January 2005 14:18, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote:
> On Jan 27, 2005, at 12:32 PM, Aaron Siegel wrote:
> > Hello
> >
> > I need to convert the some Macintosh files to a Unix/Windows format.
> > Has any
> > one been able to install MacPerl, Mac::Files, or Mac::MoreFiles on
> > their
> > FreeBSD system?  Can you recommend another solutions for converting
> > Macintosh
> > files? I have look at Macutils but it did not work.
>
> What kind of files?  text files?  Are you trying to convert the line
> endings from the Mac standard to the Unix standard (which is different
> than the Windows standard).
>
> My remembrance is that Mac files end in RETURN (ctrl-M) while Unix
> files end in LINE FEED (ctrl-L) and Windows has both.
>
> Anyway, if you are trying to convert Mac text files (like perl) to a
> Unix text files, just use FTP from the Mac to the Unix system in TEXT
> mode, not BINARY mode.
>
> Chad
>
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