[comp.sys.mac.apps] ResEdit guide?

briang@bari.Eng.Sun.COM (Brian Gordon) (11/16/90)

If dumb questions are OK, here's mine ;-}

I have a version of ResEdit that came bundled with some program or other, but
have absolutely no documentation for it or any idea how to use it.
Specifically the README for a file I ftp'd says to "use ResEdit or some other
utility to change the file type and creator to SIT!."

I have the file.  I have ResEdit.  I didn't see an obvious command to do that
presumably simple task.

I'd appreciate specific information on that one task, and general information
on how I can become a menace to myself with ResEdit in general.  Thanks.

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ollef@sics.se (Olle Furberg) (11/16/90)

In <2859@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> briang@bari.Eng.Sun.COM (Brian Gordon) writes:

>Specifically the README for a file I ftp'd says to "use ResEdit or some other
>utility to change the file type and creator to SIT!."

  Select the file and do menu "Get info" (very much like finder), you will
get a window where you could change the Type and Creator.

  If the reason for this is to open a Stuffit archive, there is a much
easier way: Hold down option-key while selecting the menu item "Open archive"
in Stuffit. This will give you the possibility to open any file.

bcs-jim@pro-angmar.UUCP (Jim Rinaldo) (11/18/90)

In-Reply-To: message from briang@bari.Eng.Sun.COM

Brian:
ALl you have to do is start Res-Edit, select the file from the little window
showing whatever volume the file is on and going get info or Cmnd-I. THat is
where the file type and creator can be set.
Disktop can do this also; just select the file and go cmnd-I.
Jim Rinaldo
Editor, Computer-Aided Publishing Solutions (CAPs)
The Boston Computer Society
BCS: (617) 367-8080, FAX: 367-8530
 
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