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From: tim@hoptoad.uucp (Tim Maroney)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Integer Size problem
Message-ID: <8369@hoptoad.uucp>
Date: 23 Aug 89 01:37:58 GMT
References: <15141@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> <13271@well.UUCP>
Reply-To: tim@hoptoad.UUCP (Tim Maroney)
Organization: Eclectic Software, San Francisco
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In article <13271@well.UUCP> svc@well.UUCP (Leonard Rosenthol) writes:
>	PLEASE DON'T DO THIS!  This is how Apple's DA's (Control Panel, etc.)
>save of their window position and it is BAD NEWS and Apple is setting another
>bad example for its developers!!!
>	To begin with it will flag some/all of the virus detections utils, it
>also means that your application CAN NOT be used off of a locked volume (or
>protected server volume, etc.), it will also mod your appls mod date and when
>you ask your users for the date of the appls, they will not the correct date!

Only if he keeps the resource in the application file.  As long as he
puts it in the preferences file, there's no problem.  Considering the
way the two of us blast anyone who suggests changing the application
resource file, this is what I assumed he was proposing.
-- 
Tim Maroney, Mac Software Consultant, sun!hoptoad!tim, tim@toad.com

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 restrained..." - Blake, "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell"