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From: sundinKC@dna.lth.se (Anders Sundin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: GetIndString and System 7
Message-ID: <1991Jun28.005428.25123@lth.se>
Date: 28 Jun 91 00:54:28 GMT
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Ben Cranston writes:
> I think the original poster was thinking more along the lines of truly
> *huge* STR# resources, where there might not be enough free memory to read
> the whole thing in at once.
For huge STR# resources you might be better off to define your own
resource type, one for each STR#. Use the ID of the new type as index.

Instead of

  resource 'STR#' (1000) {
    "A string",
    "Another string"
  };

You could use

  type 'str1' as 'STR ';
  resource 'str1' (1) {
    "A string"
  };
  resource 'str1' (2) {
    "Another string"
  };

-Anders Sundin
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