[thelist] search and replace on filenames

aardvark roselli at earthlink.net
Tue Apr 4 16:58:21 2000


> From: Steve Maxey <smaxey@bcr.com>
> 
> >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.

actually, Macs don't *need* extensions, since the resource fork 
takes care of all that... but that doesn't mean you can't *have* 
extensions...

in fact, i used to bring my PC files to a mac to convert them to 
.html before uploading them to a *nix server a great many years 
ago...