Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lts!amanda
From: amanda@lts.UUCP (Amanda Walker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: File and Folder Comments?
Message-ID: <923@lts.UUCP>
Date: 1 Mar 89 16:06:33 GMT
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Reply-To: amanda@lts.UUCP (Amanda Walker)
Organization: InterCon Systems Corporation, Reston, VA
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alexis@ccnysci.UUCP (Alexis Rosen) writes:
    [about the new desktop manager calls]

    Nowhere, however, could I find any information about actually using these
    calls. Does anybody know how to use them? My guess is that they're not
    documented because they are liable to change. (An optimist might read this
    as an indication that the Res Manager is indeed going to be changed soon,
    as I suggested in a previous note. A pessimist would say that Apple was
    lazy again. Truth is probably somewhere in the middle.)

Well, my guess is that they're not in IM V because they are so far only
implemented for AppleShare volumes or if you're using the Desktop Manager
Init, which as we all know is Not Recommended By Apple :-).

Here's the fun part.  I know I've seen (sparse) docs on the new calls,
including arguments, trap numbers, and so forth.  I just can't for the
life of me remember where.  It might have been in the APDA draft of IM V,
or then again it might have been in the seed draft of the Shared Environment
notes, or maybe in the header files for MPW 2.0{A3,Bwhatever}, or something.

Wherever they are, I can't find them any more, which I find greatly annoying.
Anyone else care to sift through old Apple preliminary docs and see if you
can find this information?  I mean, after all, Apple *does* document the
call that tells you whether or not the new calls are available...

I hate half-documented things...

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