[thelist] search and replace on filenames

Steve Maxey wrote on 4/4/00 4:00 PM:
>> as for the Mac, you can AppleScript that... of course, you could
>> script it on windows as well, but there are AppleScripts out there to
>> do it for you...
> 
> Really? I'd think he'd be stymied a bit by the fact that Mac filenames
> don't HAVE extensions.

???
Mac filenames *do* have extensions. Many programs will automatically add
extensions to the file names (such as Photoshop - .psd or what have you, and
Dreamweaver - .html, unless you disable this feature). And those names are
visible on the desktop and in folders (unlike Windows which hides the
extension unless you get properties on the file, and sometimes even then
they're hard to discern, depending on the operating system). The only way a
file doesn't have a visible extension is if the file was deliberately saved
without one.

Marlene