Re: Moving notebooks from Windows to Mac
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg32752] Re: [mg32720] Moving notebooks from Windows to Mac
- From: Tom De Vries <tdevries at shop.westworld.ca>
- Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2002 03:49:25 -0500 (EST)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
Hello Alan , I had the same trouble in the past. Someone on this group sent me a very small program that changes the type and creator info in a Mathematica file and it then becomes double-clickable... I won't send an attachment but here is the address, the file is only 21 K and it works like a charm, fast and easy. You drag the Mathematica file over the icon, and the file is fixed instantly.... http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~dazuma/filetyper/autotyperlib.html Sincerely, Tom De Vries > From: ashuchat at mediaone.net (Alan Shuchat) To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net > Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 05:10:06 -0500 (EST) > To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net > Subject: [mg32752] [mg32720] Moving notebooks from Windows to Mac > > I have a student who emails me Mathematica 4.0 notebooks created under > Windows. My Mac (G4/OS 9.2, G3/OS 8.6) doesn't recognize these as > Mathematica files, despite my setting File Exchange to map the .nb > extension to Mathematica. I can't double-click on them in the Finder and I > can't open them from within Mathematica. The only things that seem to work > are opening the notebook with BBEdit or Word and pasting the contents into > an open Mathematica window. > > TechTool says the creator and filetype for these notebooks are unknown. If > I change them manually to OMEG and TEXT, the values for Mathematica > notebooks, then double-clicking launches Mathematica and opens the files. > How can I get the Mac to do this automatically? > > I found an earlier thread about this on comp.soft-sys.math.mathematica but > didn't find a definitive answer. Can anyone suggest a solution? > > Thanks, > > Alan Shuchat > ashuchat at wellesley.edu > >