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From: earleh@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Earle R. Horton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Config File Resource Blues
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Date: 12 Jul 89 04:53:56 GMT
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In article <26241@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> lippin@math.berkeley.edu writes:
>Recently stores@unix.UUCP (Matt Mora) wrote:
>>About the "remebering the state of things" I would like to see some sort of
>>standard about text file resources. It would be wonderful for my appliction
>>to be able to read a text file and get the font, font size, window 
>>size/position and cursor location no matter what application created it.
>
>A fine idea.  How about if we all use whatever MPW uses?  It's got to
>be the most commonly used editor that does this, and I'll bet (or at
>least hope) that it isn't too badly hacked.

     The 'MPSR' resource which is used to store this information is
undocumented (read: subject to change).  You can access this
information from tools that you write, but only by going through the
MPW library routine faccess().  The information is not available to
standalone applications using this method.  I agree that a standard
for this sort of thing would be real nice to have, and that it would
be even better if supported by Apple.


Earle R. Horton
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