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From: peirce@outpost.UUCP (Michael Peirce)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: ResEdit & System 7.0
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Date: 26 Apr 91 16:21:54 GMT
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In article <1991Apr26.014540.21808@cs.cornell.edu>, swanson@CS.Cornell.EDU (Randall A. Swanson) writes:
> 
> Does anyone know if there is a newer version of ResEdit out, or about to come
> out than 2.1.
> 
> 2.1 has many shortcommings when editing system 7.0 resources.
> 
> 	1> It will not re-compress compressed resources after they have
> 		been edited.

I've heard Apple people say that it will be some time before they
release the interface to compressed resources.  They added this into
Sys 7 for one reason only - to fit Sys 7 onto a small floppy.  

Their whole compression scheme is geared to this and is not really
a generalized resource compression system.  They have realized that
this might be a good thing to add for next time around.

-- michael

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