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From: darin@ut-dillo.UUCP (Darin Adler)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: Of Fonts and Files...
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Date: Sun, 26-Jan-86 12:41:56 EST
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> It is true that resource files are searched in the order
> document, application, system.  But this isn't very useful
> if the application has constructed the "font menu" prior to
> opening the particular document you are interested in.

Also remember that when Inside Macintosh says that resource file are
searched in this order, it is not talking about application.  For example,
many applications have documents which are not resource files, or which
are not kept open for very long if they are resource files.  What this
discussion in IM is really about is that resource files are searched in the
reverse order that they were opened (starting with the last opened, or with
the last UseResFile'd file).  Since the System file is opened by InitResources
(which is usually only called by the ROM and the Finder) and the application
file is opened when the application is Launched, these are usually the last
two to be searched.
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Darin Adler	{gatech,harvard,ihnp4,seismo}!ut-sally!ut-dillo!darin

"Such a mass of motion -- do not know where it goes"	P. Gabriel