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From: wilkins@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Mark Wilkins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: The Mac's resource fork: does Win 3 have one?
Message-ID: <7705@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>
Date: 2 Jul 90 14:37:41 GMT
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Organization: Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA 91711
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In article <2964@gmdzi.UUCP> strobl@gmdzi.UUCP (Wolfgang Strobl) writes:
>Is this really that much different from the way resources are handled on the
>Macintosh? 

  It depends entirely on whether there are system calls implemented which
allow the program to modify the resource file on the fly, so to speak.

  I know nothing of Windows, but your description does not address whether
such features exist.  If there are such calls, then yes, they are much
alike.  If not, then I'd say the Mac implementation is much more useful.

-- Mark Wilkins