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From: commons@Sunburn.Stanford.EDU (Peter Commons)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Using Resource Fork to store data
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Date: 17 Jul 90 17:20:44 GMT
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I'm currently working on a new multi-user game for the Mac. In thinking about
how I would like my save file to look, it would be very convenient to have
one resource with the main data and one resource with the data for each player
(rather than have all the data sequentially laid out in the data fork) because
the game will only need to look at one player's info at a time. 

Can I do this? If so, should I use my own (non-reserved) resource name? And if
I define my own resource type, how do I specify it's length (or does it 
automatically make it as long as the handle I pass it when I call AddResource?

Thanks in advance.



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