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From: teener@apple.com (Michael Teener)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Why are prefs put in files, not resources?
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Date: 26 Jan 91 05:49:03 GMT
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Another good reason to put prefs in files is that applications can then be 
kept in read-only media, such as CD ROM's and write-protected disks.

But one of the *really* big reasons is that the modification date of of 
the application doesn't keep changing ... causing it to be copied by any 
useful incremental backup system.  Right now I end up with over 2 Meg of 
the same damn files being sent to tape every night using Retrospect for 
this reason.  (Of course, I could fix this by doing a more elaborate 
Retrospect script ... but that's more work than it's worth.) Fortunately, 
our group is using an 8mm Exabyte drive with 2 Gbytes available.


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