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From: lsr@Apple.COM (Larry Rosenstein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer,comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Finder 7.0 question
Message-ID: <13927@goofy.Apple.COM>
Date: 7 Jun 91 17:04:29 GMT
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In article <1991May25.225831.6250@news.media.mit.edu> mjkobb@media-lab.media.mit.edu (Michael J Kobb) writes:
>
>Chech out the init "Understudy".  It's at sumex.  The latest version adds the
>ability to do all this, and it doesn't make any permanent modifications, so
>you can just turn it off.

I have discovered a minor problem with Understudy.  It's possible that the
information you add with Understudy will get permanently stored in the
desktop database.

For example, suppose you use Understudy to allow you to drop StuffIt files
on Compact Pro.  

If you then copy Compact Pro to another volume, the information about which
types can be dropped on the app will be copied as well, and will include
information about StuffIt documents.  If you then disable Understudy, you
would still be able to drop StuffIt documents on Compact Pro.  You would
have to rebuild the desktop database to get rid of that information.

This is should be only a minor inconvenience because it only affects the
desktop database and not the actual application.  It will be fixed in the
next version of Understudy.

-- 
Larry Rosenstein, Apple Computer, Inc.

lsr@apple.com
(or AppleLink: Rosenstein1)