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From: stearns@Apple.COM (Bryan Stearns)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: TeachText's file types... (summary)
Message-ID: <6259@internal.Apple.COM>
Date: 18 Jan 90 23:51:43 GMT
References: <1462@gvgpvd.GVG.TEK.COM>
Organization: Apple
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From article <1462@gvgpvd.GVG.TEK.COM>, by andyp@gvgpvd.GVG.TEK.COM (Andy Peterman):
> In article <12925@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> bskendig@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Brian Kendig) writes:
>>And I seem to remember there being something about a special mode of
>>TeachText in which it actually gives you another menu for adding PICT
>>resources.
> [...]
> Find a version 1.1 of TeachText (created Oct. 8, 1987) and change its
> creator from 'ttxt' to 'ttxx'. [...] There are a few other minor bugs
> when using this hidden mode of TeachText (like it crashes for no reason)
> so save often.

Actually, there's one big bug, which is why I never told anyone about
this feature: it gets confused WHILE SAVING: something to do with "sometimes
we just have the data fork open, sometimes we have both forks open, and
sometimes we've just created the resource fork...", etc.

I never fixed this bug (or the other minor ones); I turned off a conditional-
compile flag to omit the code for this "feature" for version 1.2, to save
disk space. (Also, this feature became less necessary once I'd taught
the User Education folks, who write the ReadMe files, to use ResEdit!)

Happy landings.

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