Text files -> MacPascal files???

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From: Frank Kuiper
Date: Tue, 05 Aug 1986 16:24

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Here is the problem:

We want to convert ordinary text files to Pascal-type files.

Setting the 'Owner' field to 'PASC' is not sufficient.
Pascal apparantly needs more. I've checked the sizes of both the 
rsrc and data forks. It appears that the actual data is stored in the 
data part (obvious!), but the rsrc part ALSO contains some information,
on which Pascal relies.

So, how can we change a text-only file to a Pascal file??
Copying the rsrc part from one file to another doesn't help.

There should be a trivial solution, so we're probably missing something ... :-)

Any help appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

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               Frank
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Subject: Text files -> MacPascal files???
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