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Lois Butler <[log in to unmask]>
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Macintosh Scripting Systems <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 1 Dec 2008 22:27:36 -0500
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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PageMaker was originally made by Aldus for the Mac, where file 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.

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