Heya fellow monks!

I need to perform some simple batch edits on about a gazillion Macintosh EPS files. That's easy with perl :-)

The catch is, I need to preserve the PICT previews for these files. I'm no mac guru, but it's my understanding that the preview is stored in the resource fork and the actual data I need to edit is in the data fork of that whacky Mac bipartite file format.

How can I edit the data while preserving the previews?

The files reside on Mac OS 9, so I either have to set up perl there, or transfer the files to another environment (e.g. linux) and somehow get them back intact.

Any assistance would be exceedingly appreciated.

In reply to Edit Macintosh file, keeping resource fork by forrest

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