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From: lsr@Apple.COM (Larry Rosenstein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Signature Bytes (was Re: I'm not sure I believe this. (was Re: New WDEF Virus))
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Date: 15 Dec 89 00:01:04 GMT
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In article <4248@sbcs.sunysb.edu> vallon@sboslab15.cs.sunysb.edu (Justin 
Vallon) writes:
> > I don't know what the six bytes of data are in each signature resource
> > in the Desktop.  Anybody have a guess?

My guess is that it is the resource ID of the BNDL resource that 
corresponds to the applications (as stored in the Desktop file).  The 
Finder copies these resources from the application and has to renumber 
them.

Remember, this is only a guess. :-)

Larry Rosenstein, Apple Computer, Inc.
Object Specialist

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