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From: time@tbomb.ice.com (Tim Endres)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Compressed resources
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Date: 22 Jan 91 14:41:24 GMT
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In article <1991Jan22.110540.3139@computing-maths.cardiff.ac.uk>, ralph@computing-maths.cardiff.ac.uk (Ralph Martin) writes:
> I've found a reference in Types.r to compressed resource guard
> mechanisms, and ResEdit itself seems to contain some code for
> decompressing resources, but thats about all I can find. I have some
> resources of my own it would be very handy to compress, and want to
> know if resource compression is (or will be) available for general
> use, or just for the System etc. The obvious trick of clicking on the
> compressed checkbox in ResEdit does NOT compress a resource. It seems
> to be read-only.

I wonder if the Resource Manager has been designed to be "smart" about
when to compress resources, once again leaving the programmer on the
short end of the design process.

tim.

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