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From: tim@hoptoad.uucp (Tim Maroney)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: What is OpenRFPerm doing?!?
Message-ID: <7206@hoptoad.uucp>
Date: 8 May 89 12:15:42 GMT
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Reply-To: tim@hoptoad.UUCP (Tim Maroney)
Organization: Eclectic Software, San Francisco
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>In article <7087@hoptoad.uucp> tim@hoptoad.uucp (Tim Maroney) writes:
> I don't know how much special checking ResEdit does.  (Jon?)  If I
> wonder about the correctness of a file, I go into MPW and run the
> RezDet tool on it.  This picks up and reports on a wide variety of
> resource file problems.  ResEdit bypasses the Resource Manager and
> handles the resource file format directly, so it is possible that

In article <1542@internal.Apple.COM> lsr@Apple.COM (Larry Rosenstein) writes:
>ResEdit does use the Resource Manager.  (It may do some additional 
>checking, I don't know.)  I broke in Macsbug on OpenResFile and 
>Get1Resource, and ResEdit called both of them.

Sorry for the misinformation.  My friend Tracy spent some time talking with
DTS about this a few years ago, and at the time, he was informed that ResEdit
does not use the Resource Manager.  Either that was a mistake then, or the
code has changed.
-- 
Tim Maroney, Consultant, Eclectic Software, sun!hoptoad!tim
"The Diabolonian position is new to the London playgoer of today, but not to
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