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From: time@ice.com (Tim Endres)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: GetIndString and System 7
Message-ID: <1CE00001.i5pzda@tbomb.ice.com>
Date: 27 Jun 91 21:13:24 GMT
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In article <54390@apple.Apple.COM>, nerm@Apple.COM (Dean Yu) writes:
>   GetIndString has always been a glue routine that is implemented by whoever
> sells compilers, so we couldn't really re-write it using Partial Resource
> calls.

Except for MPW.

> At any rate, you can't really use these calls to implement GetIndString
> since ReadPartialResource takes a byte offset from the beginning of the
> resource, and you can't know where a string starts in a 'STR#'.

Since they are Pascal strings, you can jump off the length bytes,
but I doubt you would see any difference unless you had huge resources
with some type of index.

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