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From: urlichs@smurf.ira.uka.de (Matthias Urlichs)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: File Manager question
Message-ID: <778@smurf.ira.uka.de>
Date: 21 Aug 89 20:47:54 GMT
References: <1437@draken.nada.kth.se> <872@cbnewsk.ATT.COM>
Reply-To: urlichs@smurf.ira.uka.de (Matthias Urlichs)
Organization: University of Karlsruhe, FRG
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In article <8334@hoptoad.uucp> tim@hoptoad.UUCP (Tim Maroney) writes:
 [ABout saving prefs in App folder or System folder]
>The system folder solution is the one everyone else uses, so you really
>ought to do the same to avoid confusing the user.

In comp.sys.mac.programmer, ech@cbnewsk.ATT.COM (ned.horvath) writes:
< There are two issues: keep conceptually "read only" files -- thesaurus
< and dictionary if you're a WP, "toolkits" if you're doing CAD, Host files
< if you're communications, etc. -- in the application folder.  That folder
< is easy to find, just do a "GetVol" at launch time and remember the vRefNum.
< 
Why keep them anywhere special?
  If I want to get at any "special" files, I just do an _Open with the volume
refnum set to zero so that the PMSP gets walked down. (If the file is found,
of course, I try to check the file type..)
  Same for Preferences files. If it's there I never delete it, just overwrite
and set EOF. That way, the user can keep his/her files anywhere he/she wants.
  If the Prefs file is not there, I create it in the System Folder. If the
user want to move it somewhere else, no problem; if it's still in the PMSP
somewhere, my app will find it.

Apple: Any documentation (Technote??) on how to set and/or examine the PMSP?
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Matthias Urlichs -- urlichs@smurf.ira.uka.de