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Installing Drag & Drop Translators

Once you have copied the drag & drop translators applications onto you hard drive, they are installed. If the finder does not allow you to drag documents to them, you may need to rebuild the desktop file or set the correct file type of the file (see below).

To rebuild the desktop file, restart your computer and hold down the command and the option key on startup. The finder will ask you if you would like to rebuild the desktop file.

Application requirements for Drag & Drop support:

Requires system 7 or later.
Note: AppleScript is required for AppleScript scripting support.
The CTC has been tested for Year 2000.

Change Type and Creator (CTC) is a freeware application that optionally uses Internet Config (IC) to select the suggested Macintosh File Type & Creator by suffix matching. The creator allows you to double click on the file in the finder and launch the application who created it. The file type is used by applications to filter out file they can not read.

Use the preference dialog box to set options. Full balloon help is available. Use Internet Config, Internal header check and batch mode are options.

End of Line (EOL) conversion only work on file of type TEXT. The problem that *could* occur is that you mistakenly select a non-TEXT file along with other TEXT files and convert them all to type TEXT *and* convert the EOL characters to the selection of your choice. That's the danger. Don't do it.

Note that EOLs on DOS files are <CR><LF> (VAX also uses this EOL format) on Macintosh files are <CR> on UNIX files are <LF>. If you are, this little hack will surely help. Very useful for moving TEXT files between DOS, Mac, and UNIX machines by diskNet (copy file onto disk, remove disk, sneaker it to other machine, ...).

WARNING: The EOL convert code reads the entire file into memory at one time, then does the conversion as the file is re-written. If you don't know what you are doing, things *could* get pretty fouled up with EOL conversion. They might not. UNDO is not supported.

"Cross-platform compatible" file names and extensions

How CTC works:

For each file dropped on CTC or selected CTC does the following:

1. If installed and enable CTC uses IC to return the file type using IC's suffix machine.
2. if enable, the file type is confirmed and/or updated if needed using internal header check. This check read a few selected bytes from the file and attempts to guess the correct file type from the content. Once the file type is selected CTC will suggest a creator for that file type, if IC is not installed. Creator return by IC is not change.

   File type CTC internet header check knows about:

   Format of the file (creator)	File Type
   Adobe Acrobat	'PDF '
   Audio Interchange files	AIFF, AIFC
   Common Ground™ files (CGVM)	CGDC
   EPSF	EPSF
   GIF	GIFf
   IBMpc '.EXE' files	mdos
   JPEG (JIFF) files	JPEG
   Next/Sun ULaw sound file	ULAW
   PICT files (ttxt-TeachText)	PICT
   PhotoShop V2.5 files (8BIM)	8BPS
   Portable Network Graphics (PNG)	PiNG
   QuickTime Movie	MooV
   Rich Text Format (RTF)	RTF or TEXT (set in Preferences).
   Stuffit Archives	SITD
   TIFF	TIFF
   Window BMP,	BMPf
   Windows .WAV sound file	WAVE

   Internal list of default creator based on file types (Use the Internet Control panel (or Internet Config) to override this list):

   Type	Application
   ULAW	Sound Machine
   AIFF, AIFC	Sound Machine
   WAVE	SoundApp
   MooV	Movie Player
   TIFF, JPEG, BMPp, GIFf	JPEGViewer
   PDF	Adobe Acrobat
   FRL!	Replica
   CSCL	Common Ground
   PICT	SimpleText
   SITD	Stuffit Expander
   PNGf & PiNG	HTML Viewer V1.2

3. if not batch mode, prompts with suggested file type and creator (listing old file type and creator and if exit on local hard drive application name of suggested creator)

4. if the file type is 'TEXT' check, and if EOL conversion is selected. if so read file into memory and convert and overwrite old file.

	Product	Platform	Latest Version Date	To Download
	Change Type and Creator (CTC) Application	MacOS	2.22 1 June 99	Download English - 105K