MacExplorer

MacExplorer is an alternative free Windows explorer application to analyze Macintosh files stored on a Windows NT/2000/XP Server for a quick and easy access of data in AFP_info stream.

Here are some key features of "MacExplorer":

￭ Runs on Windows 95/98/ME, NT 4.0, Windows 2000 and Windows XP. ￭ Note: MacExplorer runs on 95/98 but the peculiarities of the Macintosh files are not displayed on this platform (signatures, resource sizes, comments) ￭ Automatic connection to the Macintosh Servers and to the Macintosh volumes; invalid volumes are also recognized (for example when the corresponding NT directories are renamed or removed). ￭ MacExplorer recognizes volumes which have been created by standard Microsoft Services for Macintosh (MacFile), Cyan Software MacServerIP and Intergraph ExtremeZ-IP ￭ Displays and can modify the Type/Creator codes (Signatures) ￭ Displays the Macintosh type of the files (XPress, Photoshop, Word, etc.), allowing to a Windows user to know the kind of the files without their 3 characters extensions ￭ Allows to open Macintosh files without their Windows 3 characters extensions; for example, a Macintosh Quark XPress document without the QXD extension can be opened in a Windows Quark XPress by a double-click ￭ Highlights the paths containing Unicode characters not allowed by Windows 95/98 (files or folders names containing characters like /, , , ?, *, etc.) ￭ Displays in bold the folders which are converted in "packages" (Mac OS 9) and can convert folders in packages (and vice-versa). ￭ Cf. Apple's Technote Packages in Mac OS 9 ￭ Displays the sizes of data forks and resource forks ￭ Displays and can modify the Macintosh comments ￭ Displays Microsoft Office Properties (Title, Author, Subject, Keywords, etc.) ￭ Correspondance table Signatures (Type/Creator) / Extensions easily editable ￭ Languages: English, French