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Article #43873Re: Signature Bytes (was Re: I'm not sure I believe this. (was Re: New WDEF Virus))
From: Larry Rosenstein
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 1989 00:01
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 1989 00:01
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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
Internet: lsr@Apple.com UUCP: {nsc, sun}!apple!lsr
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