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From: oster@well.sf.ca.us (David Phillip Oster)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: the wonders of usenet
Message-ID: <24351@well.sf.ca.us>
Date: 22 Apr 91 04:51:39 GMT
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Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link, Sausalito, CA
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I read and post to this group, but I also send to DTS, and I can tell you the
two serve different purposes. My postings to DTS are usually to report bugs
in Apple's code, to report bugs in important 3rd party products, and to get
help for _really_ hairy technical questions.  For example, I had a problem
that an MDEF of mine was not hiliting correctly when it was used to draw
a subsidiary menu of a hierarchical menu. To make this work correctly, you
have to store into two undocumented global variables. If I had _known_ that
that was what it took, I could have figured it out for myself by reading the
source code for Apple's MDEF. But only DTS could tell me:
1.) that was where to look.
2.) if they ever break my program they will break those of hundreds of others
that took Apple's code and slightly modified it for some other purpose.

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-- David Phillip Oster - At least the government doesn't make death worse.
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