Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!aplcen!haven!mimsy!mojo!russotto From: russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: Why are all my DA's the same kind? Message-ID: <1990Jul30.155830.14144@eng.umd.edu> Date: 30 Jul 90 15:58:30 GMT References: <28028@bcsaic.UUCP> <10840@spool.cs.wisc.edu> Sender: news@eng.umd.edu (The News System) Organization: College of Engineering, Maryversity of Uniland, College Park Lines: 16 In article <10840@spool.cs.wisc.edu> tonyrich@titanic.cs.wisc.edu (Anthony Rich) writes: >In a previous posting, I wrote: > >Apparently the DA shouldn't even HAVE a BNDL resource, and the bundle bit >should be OFF. Bund-Aid didn't report any problem because it simply >checks that if a file has a BNDL, the "bundle bit" is also ON. (As an >aside, I guess that means the "bundle bit" was invented by the Department >of Redundancy Department, eh, Apple? :^) Nope-- I'm just guessing, but I suspect the bundle bit was included so the Finder wouldn't have to OpenResFile every file. (OpenResFile is a pretty slow operation, even with SetResLoad(false)) -- Matthew T. Russotto russotto@eng.umd.edu russotto@wam.umd.edu ][, ][+, ///, ///+, //e, //c, IIGS, //c+ --- Any questions? Hey! Bush has NO LIPS!