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From: john@basho.uucp (John Lacey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Storing Appl information
Message-ID: <1991May8.055146.26834@basho.uucp>
Date: 8 May 91 05:51:46 GMT
Organization: Sportsware
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I need to store information from an application between sessions.  
That is to say, I need to be able to restore certain variables values 
when the program is next run.

There are several alternatives, but I have no basis on which to 
compare them.  I am hoping that someone else might.

The alternatives I have found are to store the information in: 1) a 
resource in the application file; 2) the application data in the 
resource fork of the application file; 3) and 4) as in 1 and 2, but 
using a separate "Preferences" file; and 5) the data fork of a separate 
file.

Viel panzer.

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