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From: oster@dewey.soe.berkeley.edu (David Phillip Oster)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Menu Manager Bug...?
Keywords: "feature"
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Date: 5 Aug 88 04:49:22 GMT
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In article <9482@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> earleh@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Earle R. Horton) writes:
>This is actually a fairly common situation, as in the case of any
>program which uses a menu to switch between named document windows.
>It happens in MicroSoft Word 3.02, and probably in all Macintosh
>applications which have a menu consisting of window or file names
>which could start with '-'.  It happens in MultiFinder's menu for open

My Windows desk accessory handles this correctly. The NULL character is
always a zero-width blank, so it is perfect to use as a prefix in menus.

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