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From: bskendig@set.Princeton.EDU (Brian Kendig)
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Subject: Re: Using "Get Info" comment field?
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Date: 28 Mar 91 08:23:12 GMT
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In article <1991Mar27.220137.3664@vax5.cit.cornell.edu> l4oj@vax5.cit.cornell.edu writes:
>   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?

Probably much more trouble than it's worth, and terribly nonintuitive,
too.  Why not open a dialog asking for a set of parameters when the
user launches your program?  Or assume some basic parameters, and let
the user change them through menu selections?

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