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From: bchurch@oucsace.cs.OHIOU.EDU (Bob Church)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Finder Data File Format
Summary: Whose problem
Keywords: finder, icons, folders, desktop
Message-ID: <1119@oucsace.cs.OHIOU.EDU>
Date: 17 Feb 90 00:53:28 GMT
References: <9001260129.AA04439@apple.com> <38342@apple.Apple.COM> <38574@apple.Apple.COM>
Organization: Ohio University CS Dept., Athens
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In article <38574@apple.Apple.COM>, dlyons@Apple.COM (David A. Lyons) writes:
> In article <1214@darkstar.ucsc.edu> lunatic@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (Lunatic) writes:
> 
> Dave Lyons sed:
> >(Writing a program that modifies the files is not a very good idea,
> >though.)
> 
> 
> Yes, Apple wants current software to keep working in the future.
> 
> These days a major way of accomplishing this is getting folks not to
> depend on things that are not guaranteed to stay the same later. 

Unfortunately it seems easier to write software by the seat of the pants
and then blame Apple when the software isn't compatible with the latest
ROM's, etc. I remember the //c getting a lot of flack because some models
would run one package of Newsroom and not another. The problem seemed to lie
in the quarter tracking copy-protection scheme which some //c drives could
do and some couldn't. Never mind that Apple does not "sanction" quarter 
tracking or copy-protection, they caught the blame.


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