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From: ack@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Andy J. Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: cdev question
Summary: can control panel access already open resource file
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Date: 25 Jul 88 17:46:51 GMT
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Reply-To: ack@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Andy J. Williams)
Organization: Kiewit Computation Center, Dartmouth College
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[ Sorry, all my catchy line eater jokes were eaten by the line eater ]

We are writing a DA which, being quite large, will have an external file in
the System Folder (Much the same as Canvas(TM) DA has Canvas Helper).

There are some attributes of this program that we would like to have
controlled by a cdev. (Mainly, the behavoir of an INIT associated with the
DA which affects the environment outside the DA).

The question is:  If the DA is open, accessing this helper file which
contains the cdev resource, will the Control Panel be able to still load
the cdev if requested by the user?  Or, will the control panel choke saying
that the file is in use or locked or what have you?  If so, is there a way
around it?

Thanks in advance.  (eMail to me, if there is an interest I'll post a
summary to the net)

-Andy


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