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AutoTyper library

Here you can download some free AutoTypers that you may find useful. All these AutoTypers are version 5.3.

EXAMPLES FROM FILETYPER 5.3.1

These are the example AutoTypers distributed with FileTyper version 5.3. They serve primarily to illustrate some of the techniques you can use when creating AutoTypers, but they are also useful utilities in their own right.

• Count Apps counts the number of applications in a folder, or on your hard disk, and reports the results to you.
• Group Lock quickly locks files.
• Group Unlock quickly unlocks files.
• JPEGView AutoTyper finds different kinds of graphics files and changes their type/creator to the correct values for the freeware graphics viewer JPEGView.
• TextToBBEdit changes text files to BBEdit text files.
• Toggle Desktop Database shows or hides the desktop database files (to make it easy to rebuild the desktop).
• Unvanish Contents clears the invisible bit of the contents of a folder (except for the icon file).
• Vanish! sets the invisible bit files and folders, but not volumes.

TEXT AUTOTYPERS

These AutoTypers make changes to text files.

• Text To Alpha gives text files the creator for Alpha.
• Text To BBEdit gives text files the creator for BBEdit.
• Text To Codewarrior gives text files and source code files the creator for Metrowerks Codewarrior.
• Text To DiskScript changes text files to DiskScripts that can be used with Disk Copy 6.1 or later.
• Text To IE URL turns text files into Internet Explorer URL bookmark files. Make sure the file is properly formatted, or IE will ignore it.
• Text To MacWrite Pro gives text files the creator for MacWrite Pro.
• Text To Mathematica gives text files the creator for Mathematica. Contributed by M. R. Schaferkotter.
• Text To Microsoft Word gives text files the creator for Microsoft Word.
• Text To MPW gives text files and source code files the creator for MPW (Macintosh Programmer's Workshop).
• Text To Netscape URL turns text files into Netscape Navigator URL bookmark files.
• Text To SimpleText gives text files the creator for SimpleText.
• Text To SimpleText Read-only turns text files into SimpleText read-only files.

OTHER AUTOTYPERS

These are some additional AutoTypers that you might find useful.

• Codewarrior/BBEdit Toggle toggles text files between Metrowerks Codewarrior and BBEdit.
• Color Floppy gives floppy disks the color icon they should have.
• Fix Icon Files is an easy way to fix the type and creator and invisibility of icon files contained in a folder or on a volume. Macintouch reported on 28 December, 1996 that SpeedDoubler 1.3.1 could corrupt the settings for icon files.
• GIFConverter AutoTyper finds different kinds of graphics files and changes their type/creator to the correct values for the shareware program GIFConverter.
  See also: GIFConverter home page
• GraphicConverter AutoTyper finds different kinds of graphics files and changes their type/creator to the correct values for the shareware program GraphicConverter.
• IIe DOS 3.3 Disk gives DOS 3.3 disk images with the filename extensions ".dsk" or ".do" the proper type and creator for the excellent emulator "IIe" by Victor and Vincent Tan.
• MacAmp AutoTyper gives MPEG Audio layer 3 files the type and creator for the MacAmp player.
• SimpleText Toggle toggles SimpleText files between writeable and read-only.
• Vamp AutoTyper gives MPEG Audio layer 3 files the type and creator for the Vamp player.

AUTOCHANGERS

AutoChangers are programs based on the AutoTyper engine, but custom-written to do special jobs. They can't be created or edited using MakeAutoTyper.

CREATE YOUR OWN!

If you are interested in creating your own AutoTypers, pick up the FileTyper Suite from the download page.

If you've made a clever AutoTyper that you think would be useful for people to have, email me at dazuma@kagi.com and it could appear here in the AutoTyper Library!