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From: jimb@amdcad.UUCP (Jim Budler)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: Desired Finder Feature
Message-ID: <1112@amdcad.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 17-Apr-85 14:01:04 EST
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Posted: Wed Apr 17 14:01:04 1985
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Reply-To: jimb@amdcad.UUCP (Jim Budler)
Organization: AMDCAD, Sunnyvale, CA
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Summary: 

In article <52@angband.UUCP> sjc@angband.UUCP (Steve Correll) writes:
>I wish that every application which offers a panoply of user-settable
>options would arrange to remember the settings from one execution to
>...
>The resource mechanism could have solved this problem for every
>application.
>...
>Since it is too late to use the resource mechanism in this fashion,
>application developers might borrow an idea from other operating systems
>where applications typically read a text-file (often called a "profile") at
>startup to determine how the user wants the options set up.

I agree with what you said, except for your conclusion.  It is not at all
too late for EITHER method to be used by application developers.

Red Ryder 4.0 (and probably later) uses the startup file to remember its
last state.

Many people have pasted the resources from a Macterminal document back into
Macterminal to create a new startup condition.  The application developer could 
easily create such an automatic action to give the result you desire.

The mechanism to paste a resource into a file, as Rsed does, can be placed
in any application.  At that point the mechanism to do this doesn't discriminate
between an external file and itself, unless the programmer wants it to do
so.

-- 
 Jim Budler
 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
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