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From: alexr@apple.com (Alexander M. Rosenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Desktop Manager ramblings
Message-ID: <13710@goofy.Apple.COM>
Date: 29 May 91 17:30:43 GMT
References: <1991May29.102245.3827@waikato.ac.nz>
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In article <1991May29.102245.3827@waikato.ac.nz>, ldo@waikato.ac.nz (Lawrence D'Oliveiro, Waikato University) writes:
> 
..
> 
> I've already found a mistake in Inside Mac Vol VI. In the documentation
> for the PBDTGetComment and PBDTSetComment calls (pages 9-54 and 9-56
> respectively), it says that the comment is stored and returned as a
> Pascal-format string. This is not true: it's just a string of straight
> text characters, with no preceding length byte. This makes sense, because
> the length is passed and returned in a separate field anyway.
> 
..

I have also notices that although Inside Mac VI tells you how to open and
close the Desktop for a volume, it does _not_ mention that the Desktop
Manager doesn't work at INIT time. (It tries to make calls to the Process
Manager, which isn't set up yet at that time.)

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