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From: keith@Apple.COM (Keith Rollin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Accessing the APPL resources in the desktop file.
Message-ID: <40684@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 2 May 90 16:36:42 GMT
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In article <14850@reed.UUCP> chaffee@reed.bitnet (Alex Chaffee) writes:
>In article <500@lily.warwick.ac.uk> cstxqee@warwick.ac.uk (Flash) writes:
>>
>>How can I access the 'APPL' resources in the desktop file.  I've opened it
>>read-only so I can have access while under Multifinder.  I dont want to
>>alter the resources just scan through them to find out where all the
>>Applications on a volume are.  Before anyone mails me telling me that the
>>APPL resources dont only hold Applications and that when you delete an
>>application the approp resource isnt deleted, I already know :-)
>
>The desktop file is obsolete.  Apple now endorses the use of the Desktop
>Manager INIT for non-AppleShare Macs.  DM replaces the Desktop file with two
>files of its own, so even if the Desktop file hasn't been deleted (on a
>machine running DM), its information will probably be out of date.  Unless
>you can find out the format of the Desktop Manager's files, looks like
>you're down to a total scan of the disk...

I don't believe that we endorse the use of the Desktop Manager on anything 
other than AppleShare volumes. There are problems with doing so, as another
poster recently noted. As such, the desktop file is NOT yet obsolete.

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