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From: boerned@mist.CS.ORST.EDU (Dan Boerner)
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Subject: Re: Resource Fork data storage--related question
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Date: 23 Jul 90 00:59:30 GMT
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In his response Philip asks 

> Why not store the result of GetResource directly into the array? 

I believe the answer is that GetResource allocates memory for a resource only
once.  The second time you call GetResource, it will return a handle to the
same memory block as it did the first time.  Therefore, you must copy the
results of GetResource into a different block of memory for each different
copy of the resource you want.  

Dan Boerner
boerned@cs.orst.edu
Oregon State University