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From: mneerach@iiic.ethz.ch (Matthias Ulrich Neeracher)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: New convention for owned resources--addendum
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Date: 18 Oct 90 14:44:48 GMT
References: <2001.271ca261@waikato.ac.nz> <2005.271d7a03@waikato.ac.nz> <1990Oct17.220257.26134@comp.vuw.ac.nz>
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In article <1990Oct17.220257.26134@comp.vuw.ac.nz> newbery@rata.vuw.ac.nz (Michael Newbery) writes:
>Why not follow the 'BNDL' approach ('bndl' perhaps, which would of course
>require Apple's blessing)? The 'bndl' resource could simply be a list of
>associated resources. Much more general and easier to localise.

This wouldn't work because you need to be able to have such a bundle for 
every resource ID of every possible resource type, not just of one type.
You can't express that with one 16-bit resource ID, unless you do a lot
of collision detection and renumbering.

Matthias

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Matthias Neeracher                                   mneerach@iiic.ethz.ch
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