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From: andyp@treehouse.UUCP (Andy Peterman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Cleaning desktop file
Message-ID: <336@treehouse.UUCP>
Date: 3 Aug 90 00:57:30 GMT
References: <14268@wpi.wpi.edu> <JD231825.90Aug1164634@mendota.longs.lance.Colostate.Edu> <1990Aug2.155812.5840@midway.uchicago.edu>
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In article <1990Aug2.155812.5840@midway.uchicago.edu> dwal@ellis.uchicago.edu (David Walton) writes:
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>Which brings up a question: does anybody know where one might find a
>published description of the format the Desktop Manager uses in its
>DesktopDB and DesktopDF files?

I believe the Desktop Manager uses the B*Tree manager that Apple promised
to give us in System 7.0.  There was a chapter on it in the early
7.0 release notes (from a year ago).  The B*Tree manager has existed
within the file manager ever since HFS came out and the Desktop Manager
simply took advantage of it.  Apple promised to give us access to this 
manager with 7.0, but I guess this is one of the new features that got 
put off (longer than everything else, that is!:-).  

	Andy Peterman
	treehouse!andyp@gvgpsa.gvg.tek.com