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From: strobl@gmdzi.UUCP (Wolfgang Strobl)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: The Mac's resource fork: does Win 3 have one?
Message-ID: <2966@gmdzi.UUCP>
Date: 2 Jul 90 17:38:52 GMT
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wilkins@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Mark Wilkins) writes:

>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

I know nearly nothing of the Mac's API, but I am willing to learn.
Why would one want to modify the resource file on the fly? I can think
about a few reasons myself, and there is surely a lack of system call support
in the resource area of MS Windows. But there are other features (dynamic link
libraries, for example) which could compensate for that. But this
depends on what the system calls you refer to are used for.

Wolfgang Strobl