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From: davewh@microsoft.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Icon Info
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Date: 12 Mar 91 13:41:17 GMT
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aford@pro-mansion.cts.com writes:

>[why not put comment info at the end of the file instead into a res fork?] 

Well, some programs have an anti-virus checking sort of thing, and
the first thing they check is their own file length. (A program may
also do various checksums against the compiled version.) At any rate,
tacking stuff onto the end of the file will cause the virus checker
to go off.

The first thing to do is to see if the file is already a forked file.
If so, put the comment in the res fork. If not, put the comment into
a finder droppings file.

Dave Whitney
Microsoft