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From: lsr@Apple.COM (Larry Rosenstein)
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Subject: Re: CDEV/INIT Data Exchange, another way
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Date: 7 Jun 90 22:02:22 GMT
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In the future the best approach to this will be to use the Gestalt trap.  
Gestalt will allow one piece of code to register a value under a 
4-character ID, and another piece to look up the value associated with the 
ID.

Also, in most cases, the reason for the CDEV/INIT communication is so that 
changes in the CDEV are immediately reflected in the INIT.  That's a nice 
feature to have, but sometimes it isn't necessary.

Larry Rosenstein, Apple Computer, Inc.
Object Specialist

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