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From: lucifer@world.std.com (Kevin S Green)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: System 5.0.4
Message-ID: <1991Mar4.232720.16931@world.std.com>
Date: 4 Mar 91 23:27:20 GMT
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In article <45035@ut-emx.uucp> daveh@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (David H. Huang) writes:
>>Oh, another feature I asked for: The ability to enter a few lines
>>of text into the Get Info dialog box, like on the Mac. I for one
>>am always forgetting version numbers, author names, etc. On my
>>mac at work, the Get Info helps me keep things straight.
>
>What did he say about this one? There was some discussion about this a
>couple of months (maybe a year or so) ago. On the Mac, the Get Info
>information is stored in a resource fork. Although this could be done
>on the GS, it would make the file uncopyable by Prodos 8 applications.
>The general consensus was that it wasn't worth adding a resource just
>to stick a comment into a file. I guess one could tack the comment
>onto the end of the file, but I really don't think that would be a
>good idea...

That is exactly what I mused about...putting the comment in
a resource. Much as I love the entire // line, GS/OS is
already somewhat removed now that a number of programs use
resources. BAbout the only stickler that I can see would be
trying to move a text file (with get info resource) to a
ProDOS 8 based machine for use. 



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