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From: e118-ak@euler.uucp (e118 student)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Problem finding Application
Message-ID: <10008@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: 17 Feb 89 07:13:02 GMT
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Reply-To: e118-ak@euler.UUCP (Linc Madison)
Organization: U.C. Berkeley Mechanical Engineering
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I wrote earlier about a problem I had with ReadySetGo icons vanishing.
The only thing I had found was that the bundle bit wasn't set.  First,
thanks to the people who posted/e-mailed help, especially ephraim v.
for DeskCheck, a nifty little program that reports any irregularities
in resources anywhere on your hard disk.

jeanne devoto (jdevoto@apple.com) said:
>
>ReadySetGo should have its bundle bit set. Set it and rebuild the desktop,
>and you're off.
>
>The Finder uses the bundle bit, along with the BNDL resource of any file
>whose bundle bit is set, to figure out which files belong to which applica-
>tions.  (etc.)
>
>Hope this helps.

I tried resetting the bundle bit with FileTools D.A., which didn't
help.  A quick run through DeskCheck revealed the problem: the sig-
nature resource was missing from RSG!  (I forget the creator type,
but say it was WXYZ.  Then ReadySetGo itself is a file of type APPL
(application) of creator WXYZ.  What I finally deciphered from the
messages from DeskCheck was that there should be a corresponding
resource of type WXYZ ID=0 in the resource fork.  I looked at the
signature resources of several other programs, and they were just
simple text along the lines of "Foo!(TM), version 2.3, copyright (c)
1987, Bar Software, Inc."  I used ResEdit to create a new WXYZ
resource (MRSN, I think, actually), ID=0, and put in some appropriate
text.  It worked!  My icons appeared on the desktop!  Hooray!

Thanks to jeanne and ephraim and the net for your help.

-- Linc Madison = e118-ak@euler.berkeley.edu
P.S. One related question: DeskCheck commented that the bundle bit
on the DeskTop wasn't set -- is it supposed to be??