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From: francis@daisy.uchicago.edu (Francis Stracke)
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Subject: Re: New convention for owned resources--a proposal
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Date: 19 Oct 90 04:26:21 GMT
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In article <6449@bgsuvax.UUCP> denbeste@bgsuvax.UUCP (William C. DenBesten) writes:
>Currently the 'key' when looking up a resource is ResType + ID.  The
>cleanest suggestion I can come up with would be to change the key to
>be ResType + ID + Creator.  Current calls could default to the creator
>
>This would be significantly less complicated than a BNDL scheme, and
>would not look like a kludge.  Unfortunately, I don't know that this
>could be made compatable with current resource formats.  

You probably could, by sticking the info into the resource map.
This is something that would take Apple's agreement; it would
be a system-software change.  They would probably be loath to
go along with it, since it would be hard to keep it from breaking
on old systems that don't understand what the creator ID is doing
there.

Then again, maybe the resource map is more flexible than I think,
& the old systems would just ignore the extra data, being told that
the entry was of a particular size.

Something to think about: would there be a call to lie about your
creator ID? (So that you could stick a resource into a file where
another entity could find it as its own)


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