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From: urlichs@smurf.sub.org (Matthias Urlichs)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Files and Drivers
Message-ID: <&&1te2.t15@smurf.sub.org>
Date: 27 Jul 90 10:22:13 GMT
References: <1990Jul24.133617.8305@eng.umd.edu> <q=$re2.1]1@smurf.sub.org> <1990Jul26.134700.16427@eng.umd.edu>
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In comp.sys.mac.programmer, article <1990Jul26.134700.16427@eng.umd.edu>,
  russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto) writes:
< In article <q=$re2.1]1@smurf.sub.org> urlichs@smurf.sub.org (Matthias Urlichs) writes:
< >
< >[...] If the application which (according to
< >MultiFinder) opened the file quits, the file is automagically closed.
< 
< Why not simply mess with $910?  Or does MultiFinder worry about the heap and
< not the CurApName?
< 
MultiFinder worries about its internal process ID.
So, that's not it, unfortunately.

< Seems to me that Apple should make some way of opening the file and having it
< stay open-- like a constant to be added to ioPermssn, or something.
Good idea.

< Apple, are you listening?  Apple?

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