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Subject: Re: New convention for owned resources-
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Date: 17 Oct 90 15:07:00 GMT
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If you are trying to propose a _real_ standard for associating
resources, look at Fonts. There, Apple uses the top word for the 'family'
ID and the bottom for the individual fonts. There is also the way that
DAs get to keep resources, which is similar, though I don't remeber the
details. But Apple would never support a text-id convention. Besides,
think of all the string-comparisons you would have to do to find
your resources. Just being able to compute it is much cleaner.