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From: mdavis@pro-sol.cts.com (Morgan Davis)
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Subject: Re: Desktop Manager ramblings
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Date: 29 May 91 17:56:13 GMT
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In-Reply-To: message from ldo@waikato.ac.nz

} As other people have noticed, the Desktop Manager calls only allow
} you to perform very specific functions. You can't scan through all
} the comments and application information on a volume, you can only
} do it for explicitly-named files. Thus, to get all the information
} on a volume, you have to do a scan on every file and folder on
} the volume in turn, and see if there's any information stored for each
} one of them.

Or, and this is what my original message was about, you could use the
DesktopDB file (which is some kind of binary tree -- the key to QUICKLY
accessing information on all files and folders on a volume).  If some
MacGenius spent a while browsing through its contents, perhaps he or she
could document its structure -- and we could all benefit from being able
to *read* through it.  I'm not interested in modifying it at all.

} Lawrence D'Oliveiro                       fone: +64-71-562-889
} Computer Services Dept                     fax: +64-71-384-066
} University of Waikato            electric mail: ldo@waikato.ac.nz
} Hamilton, New Zealand    37^ 47' 26" S, 175^ 19' 7" E, GMT+12:00

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