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From: gil@ginger.sri.com (Gil Porat)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Saving user preferences
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Date: 10 Nov 89 00:33:04 GMT
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Reply-To: gil@ginger.sri.com (Gil Porat)
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What is a clean and user-transparent scheme for storing an
application's user settable preferences (e.g. English vs Metric)?

The one that readily comes to mind is a file that the
application reads in when launched, and writes out when
modified.

This scheme doesn't seem that user-transparent because
the preferences file usually manifests itself as an icon.
The user might accidentally delete it, rename it, etc...

Gil Porat
gil@rml.sri.com