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From: tj@kona.cs.ucla.edu (Tom Johnson)
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Subject: Re: ResEdit & System 7.0
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Date: 2 May 91 16:49:56 GMT
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In article <13285@goofy.Apple.COM> Greg@AppleLink.Apple.Com (Greg Marriott) writes:
>'fmnu' resources are another undocumented (i.e. unsupported) piece of System 7.
>It's pretty easy to "hack" out what to change to add command keys to Finder
>menus... but don't write a utility to do it and expect it to work in future
>versions of the system software.  Any undocumented part of the
>system is subject to change without notice.

So, can someonce explain why Apple is using a different menu resource format?
What new and exciting features do fmnu's have that the regular old
MENU resources don't have?


Tom
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