John,
PageMaker was originally made by Aldus for the Mac, where file
extensions really did not matter. In the late 80's they expanded to the
PC world where extensions are everything.
You did not say what version you were running, but you can try 'apd' as
that was the extension of the PM binary files.
You can always stick your own extension on it and at the end, look for
any file with that extension and run your script to add the Mac
fileType info back in.
Lloyd
From: Mark Lively <[log in to unmask]>
Date: December 1, 2008 6:41:47 PM EST
Subject: Re: help with resource forks...
Ah.. its not that the resource fork is missing, its that the file type
is being lost. If the files have the proper extension then the OS
should be able to recreate it on its own. No idea of what it should be
though.