Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!olivea!apple!portal!sv!moose From: moose@svc.portal.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Forks? Message-ID: <1990Dec1.021843.5148@svc.portal.com> Date: 1 Dec 90 02:18:43 GMT References: <975@autodesk.COM> Distribution: na Organization: Software Venture Lines: 18 In article <975@autodesk.COM> glang@Autodesk.COM (Gary Lang) writes: >Ah but this isn't standard Unix, it's Mach, and it's much better >about this sort of thing. > >Icons, interface builder objects, sounds and the like are stored >in sections of named segments of an object file. You can get access >to these pieces of data through low-level mach calls or more likely >through appkit calls that know about the most interesting kinds >of these objects (windows, IB classes, icons, etc.). Could one put named segments in non-object files? In other words, could I have a save document for my application that uses these segments? Such as Write Now putting the graphics into the same file as the text, just a different segment. Currently they use file packages. -- Michael Rutman | moose@svc.portal.com Cubist | makes me a NeXT programmer Software Ventures | For Your Eyes Only Public Key