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From: sfalken@mondo.engin.umich.edu (Steve Falkenburg)
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Subject: Re: New XferIt Mac FTP Client Available
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Date: 1 May 91 15:39:43 GMT
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In article <1991Apr30.172718.11744@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>, Jim.Matthews@dartmouth.edu (Jim Matthews) writes:
> 
> MacTCP apps will have to be rewritten, or at least relinked; there's no
> getting around the fact that MacTCP now belongs in the Control Panels
> folder, and existing apps will not look there.  Requiring two copies of
> MacTCP is a kludge that users shouldn't have to put up with.

The real solution is to have the authors of the _offending_ apps upgrade.
Making new MacTCP programs look in 2-3 different places for MacTCP is
a kludge.  A fix for Eudora would solve most of people's problems.

> In that spirit, here's my rewrite of the offending routine in dnr.c.  
> It looks in the Control Panels folder first, then in the regular system 
> folder, and is not fooled by aliases (but it doesn't resolve them either).
> It requires the MPW 3.2 Interface.o (or Think C 4.0.4 MacTraps) for the
> Gestalt glue; otherwise it only works under 6.0.4 and later.  And it requires
> 7.0 interfaces (from either the 7.0b1 CD or the 7.0b4 CD) for the
> definitions of the Gestalt and Folder manager constants.  Hopefully Apple
> and Symantec will make the new interfaces and libraries available for FTP
> once 7.0 ships.
> 

XferIt does everything this does... _except_, it is fooled by aliases.  Guess
I'll add an alias check.  You know, it seems like this stuff should be
already written and working when it comes shipped from Apple...

Oh well,

steve falkenburg
sfalken@mondo.engin.umich.edu