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From: holland@m2.csc.ti.com (Fred Hollander)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Finder file information
Keywords: Get Info
Message-ID: <83242@ti-csl.csc.ti.com>
Date: 6 Jul 89 20:13:05 GMT
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In article <864@manta.NOSC.MIL> lulue@manta.NOSC.MIL (Dan Lulue ) writes:
>The "Get Info" item reports a file's name, kind, size,
...
>is also a text field  that the user can type information into.
...
>changes, indicating that the editable text is stored in the file,
>probably in a resource.  Is this right?  If so, which resource?  I want

I wish it were stored as a resource in the file.  Unfortunately, it's stored
in the Desktop file.  I never use this feature, because whenever you rebuild
your Desktop, you lose all the comments.

-Fred

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