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From: chaz@pnet51.cts.com (Chuck Larson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Changing Name Registration in Microsoft Products
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Date: 24 Aug 89 00:45:06 GMT
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In article  <15075@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU>, thomas@eleazar.dartmouth.ed
mmerall) writes:
>
> [ Someone's name gets mistyped in MS work peronalize-it dialog
>
>How do you do this?  I can use FEdit or MacSnoop to find the name, but how
>is it formatted?  Does anyone know?  It doesn't work if you just change the

This is quite easy.  using FEdit or something like it, set the logical EOF of
the data fork of the application to 0 (that's zero, of course.)  The
name/organization is the only thing in the data fork, and if it is 0, the
program will ask you for the name/organization again, just like the first
launch.  Claris products also works like this, if I'm not mistaken.

<chaz>

[this is my first non-local post, so please pardon the lack of an edifying
signature file...I will figure this stuff out sooner or later... :-)]

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