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From: d88-jwa@nada.kth.se (Jon W{tte)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: How does one manage default files?
Message-ID: <1990May7.100412.8067@kth.se>
Date: 7 May 90 10:04:12 GMT
References: <9087@tank.uchicago.edu> <1990May3.112707.4287@kth.se> <1990May3.173308.646@Neon.Stanford.EDU>
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Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
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In article <1990May3.173308.646@Neon.Stanford.EDU>,
kaufman@Neon.Stanford.EDU (Marc T. Kaufman) writes:

[ I write ]
> -Check for a folder named "Preferences" in the system folder.

> Would someone like to suggest a canonical STR resource number containing the
> name 'Preferences' ?

I really think this isn't necessary - most users don't look in the
system folder, and since the applications that presently exist and
use the folder trick (United does, how many else ?) have the name
"Preferences" hard-coded, there's no need for every application
to create it's own folder in the system folder...

I usually bitch about "foreign awareness" but I really don't find
this case to be worth it. Consider; the Finder is called Finder,
MF is called MultiFinder even in Sweden.

But if you like to, you can always have STR Id 4711, name "Preferences
Folder Name", as your standard :-)

> Marc Kaufman (kaufman@Neon.stanford.edu)

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