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> I am try to write a script that will rename Macintosh files to windows
> file
> name format. I do not have access to a Macintosh computer. Can
> MacPerl,
> Mac::Files, and Mac::MoreFiles run on a FreeBSD system?
If it's just a matter of naming, you don't need Mac::Files and the like.
But I would guess what you want to do is actually use the file type
info that would be available in the Mac HFS file system to determine
the file extensions? There used to be packages available for that sort
of thing, but I'm not sure if you can still find them. They never
worked perfectly, as I recall. But it wouldn't be perl, it would be
*nix. The utilities for installing netBSD or openBSD on the old Macs
came with some utilities for moving only one fork into a BSD partition,
but those are not scriptable by any means.
Hard to say what to suggest without more information. Old Macs with
built-in ethernet and scsi are often really cheap on ebay, for
instance. Likely to be easier to run the MacBSD on a Mac and have it
ship things up the wire or save things onto a MS-DOS SCSI volume, or,
if the files aren't big, onto an MS-DOS floppy.
--
Joel Rees
even though much of what I do is not sensible
it does make sense if you know why ...
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