How to tell if an app is a FAT binary or not?

Get Info on an app doesn't tell me like in OS X. How is it done in 7.x.x (and 8.x for that matter) ?
Also, was every System 7.1.2 and beyond "fat" ? Or were there 68k versions and PPC versions of the same revision? (ex: 68k-only 7.5.3 and PPC-only 7.5.3)? From reading Apple's site, I believe all past 7.1.2 were "fat", but want to make sure...
Lastly, is there a way to strip a "fat" System from the PPC code if you know it will be used in a 68k machine, much like lipo does for PPC/Intel in OSX ?
Thanks

Antonis,
Quick reality check. Even Apple quit writing software for the $10,000 Mac II fx when the SCSI controller software for the Quadra became more important.
From a practical standpoint, doing a clean install of a FAT system, wiping the other drives and then replicating the clean system folder would be faster than diagnosing all the other drives.
I used to save every system folder I ever encountered so that I would be sure and have that elusive extension file required for that unique piece of hardware. Then I would update to a newer OS, try to get the hardware to work, find out that the company that created the hardware had been sold twice and divisions of the company abandoned...
I had an accelerator card in my first SE. When I went to update from one meg of RAM to two so we could add a fax modem, the Apple dealer technician could not get it to work. They could not find the manufacturer of the card. There were no software updates. No one had written a patch software routine. I suggested that the dealer try four meg of RAM to see if that would work. It did. Apparently, two megs had to have some jumper or resister cut or two sticks on the motherboard or two on the accelerator card or one apiece. Who knows. Filling every slot worked.
May sound simple enough. The reality of it was that instead of adding one $100 RAM stick to go from 1 meg to 2 meg, I was now going to spend $300 to go from 1 meg to 4 meg of RAM. Those were the days of 9600 baud modems selling for a $1,000 and 40 meg hard drives sold for $1,200.
Yes, someone may have written a fun little software routine but it would have been shareware and probably long since forgotten because most Mac users would just do a clean install and move on. Don't get me wrong. It is definately worth asking if someone knows of such software but the odds are unfortunately against the easy answer.
That is better hope than most PC users get when they haul their PC into a repair shop. They are asked if they have a backup because the repairman is going to just wipe the drive. Good luck.
Ji˜m

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