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From: lsr@Apple.COM (Larry Rosenstein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Comments on SUM II
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Date: 31 Aug 89 17:10:02 GMT
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In article <1382@esquire.UUCP> sbb@esquire.UUCP (Stephen B. Baumgarten) 
writes:

> Yes, DiskFit for one.  The reason FastBack doesn't is that it doesn't
> backup/restore the desktop file (where all of this info resides).
> Fifth Generation claims that it doesn't because ``the desktop file
> belongs to the system and its contents are not documented'' or
> something to that effect.  I don't know what happens if you backup

[This was with respect to restoring windows and icons to their original 
positions.]

That's true of MFS volumes, but for HFS volumes all the information about 
the window position is stored in the catalog.  Look at the PBGetCatInfo 
call and the various Finder info fields.  You probably shouldn't try to 
attach any particular meaning to the fields,  but if you save and restore 
them as a bunch of bits then the windows and icons should reappear in 
their original positions.


Larry Rosenstein, Apple Computer, Inc.
Object Specialist

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