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From: francis@magrathea.uchicago.edu (Francis Stracke)
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Subject: Re: ResEdit
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Date: 3 Dec 90 22:24:13 GMT
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In article <12182@milton.u.washington.edu> phaedrus@milton.u.washington.edu (Mark Phaedrus) writes:
>In article <1990Dec2.173058.28944@santra.uucp> s37775d@taltta.hut.fi (Pandy (A. Holmberg)) writes:
>
>>	DELETE THE RESEDIT PREFERENCES FILE BEFORE USING RESEDIT!
>
>>Of course if you have customized your ResEdit you might want to copy some of
>>your resources in the ResEdit Prefs file first.
>
>     Bonus points for anyone who figures out how to do this without using
>ResEdit. :)
>     Sorry, I couldn't resist.

I love it.  (Of course, you could write a program to do this--
pretty simple, actually.) Better way: RENAME the old prefs file;
then start up ResEdit, and copy the desired pref resources
out of there.

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