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From: nick@lfcs.ed.ac.uk (Nick Rothwell)
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Subject: Doing horrible things to resource files
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Date: 8 Jun 89 11:32:59 GMT
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In-reply-to: tim@hoptoad.uucp (Tim Maroney)

In article <7578@hoptoad.uucp>, tim@hoptoad (Tim Maroney) writes:
>Adding resources to someone else's resource file?  Can you say massive
>potential for conflicts?  Can you say forget about network
>compatibility if you write into an application file?  Can you say every
>sense of programming elegance revolts?

Funny this should come up... only yesterday I was playing with
Microsoft (acht...ptui) Excel. I launched it, and GateKeeper reported
that Excel had done a SetResAttr() on CDEF 1 in the System file. Of
all the spaced-out brain-dead....  Why???

		Nick.
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Nick Rothwell,	Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science, Edinburgh.
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