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From: anders@verity.com (Anders Wallgren)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Why are prefs put in files, not resources?
Message-ID: <1991Jan10.062215.22248@verity.com>
Date: 10 Jan 91 06:22:15 GMT
References: <1991Jan10.044428.6108@spool.cs.wisc.edu>
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In-Reply-To: tonyrich@titanic.cs.wisc.edu (Anthony Rich)

In article <1991Jan10.044428.6108@spool.cs.wisc.edu>, tonyrich@titanic (Anthony Rich) writes:
>If a program allows user-preference settings to be saved, it usually
>creates one or more "preferences" or "settings" files in the System Folder.
>Why aren't the preferences stored in a resource within the program itself,
>instead (say, in a PREF resource)?
>
>Is there some compelling reason why that would be a bad thing to do?
>


Yes.  What if you want to put it on a file server and have multiple
users use it simultaneously?  Even though this could be done with some
clever programming, the mac only supports one writer on a resource
fork at once.  Also, it may not be desirable to leave the application
in a world-writable state all the time.

anders