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Article #38124Re: What's the "best" way to save a file?
From: Larry Rosenstein
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 1989 18:48
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 1989 18:48
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In article <1302@ccnysci.UUCP> alexis@ccnysci.UUCP (Alexis Rosen) writes:
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>Larry Rosenstein wrote a nice article on MacApp's "Save As..." behavior.
>I am distressed by one thing- he makes no mention of copying over foreign
>resources! Does this mean that every time MacApp saves, it will blow away
The only reading & writing that MacApp does is for the Print Info record,
which is put into the data fork. Even doing this is done only if the
programmer specifically requests it.
So it is up to the programmers to copy over all the resources in the
document. This is an area that MacApp should handle automatically (if the
programmer uses the resource fork). MacApp's support for saving in the
resource fork is not as good as it could be. I mentioned this to one of the
MacApp people, and he said that there are various ideas floating around for
improving the document saving code (post-MacApp 2.0.
Larry Rosenstein, Object Specialist
Apple Computer, Inc. 20525 Mariani Ave, MS 46-B Cupertino, CA 95014
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!claris!apple!lsr From: lsr@Apple.COM (Larry Rosenstein) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: What's the "best" way to save a file? Message-ID: <26160@apple.Apple.COM> Date: 21 Feb 89 18:48:05 GMT References: <674@internal.Apple.COM> <1302@ccnysci.UUCP> Organization: Advanced Technology Group, Apple Computer Lines: 24