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From: tlm@byucsb.UUCP (Myers Tim )
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: Help with DA's requested
Message-ID: <154@byucsb.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 26-Feb-85 12:50:39 EST
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Posted: Tue Feb 26 12:50:39 1985
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Reply-To: tlm@byucsb.UUCP (Myers Tim (MacHack))
Organization: BYU Computer and Statistical Science -- Provo UT
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Summary: 

In article <> ihw@hou5a.UUCP (I Walkenfeld) writes:
>[...]
>
>I'm having some trouble with a few of the desk accessories that I've
>downloaded from the net recently and would like some help.
>
...
>2.   I've been using the Desk Accessory Mover (1.4) to extract desk accessories
>     that were originally resources, not DAM documents.  Most DA's come out
>     OK.  Calendar, insect, and journal cannot be extracted from System
>     successfully using the DAM - when extracting them, they get
>     initiated as though I had selected them from the apple menu,
>     and DAM reports an error.
>     Is there something about these DA's that makes them unsuitable
>     to be made into DAM documents?  Is there a way around it?  I really
>     would like to keep them as DAM doc's; it's so much more
>     convenient.

I can't remember exactly where I read this, but I think it was in the Desk
Manager part of Inside Macintosh where it states that Desk Accessory names
*should* begin with a null then be followed by the accessory name.

I have a gut feeling that many of these wonderful accessories that get passed
around do not comply with this suggestion in IM.  The result is that DAM goes
crazy when it gets a filename that exactly matches the accessory name.  This
is not the case with accessories that were properly created like the stock
Calculator.  Calculator is really "<null>Calculator" in the System resource.

My only fix so far is to name the DAM save file something different than the
accessory name.  Anybody know how to insert a null in accessory names?

Some other problems happen with DAM when DRVR numbers collide, but that is
another story...

Tim Myers