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From: l4oj@vax5.cit.cornell.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Using "Get Info" comment field?
Message-ID: <1991Mar27.220137.3664@vax5.cit.cornell.edu>
Date: 27 Mar 91 22:01:37 EDT
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Organization: CIT, Cornell University
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   I've written a C program for MS-DOS that I am porting to the Macintosh.
It uses some command-line arguments.  It appears that it might be possible
to grab the "Get Info" comments string, and use this as the command line.
(It took a long time of wading through "Inside the Macintosh" to figure
out where this is stored).  Of course, this is nonstandard and probably
will be impossible with System 7.0, but since the "Get Info" comments
fields are for whatever the user wants, it should work OK for the moment.
   Has anyone tried something like this?  Any problems to beware of?
Thanks,
--Doug Elrod
  (L4oj@vax5.cit.cornell.edu, L4oj@CORNELLA.BITNET)