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Re: Packages

#1173
From: Gordon Van Huizen
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 20:02
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In article <1992Aug15.001900.1465@csus.edu> eps@futon.SFSU.EDU (Eric P.  
Scott) writes:
> In article <1992Aug13.220229.15234@sunova.ssc.gov>
> 	sapp@falcon.ssc.gov (Kevin Sapp) writes:
> >How does one create a file package from an app?  
> 
> If you're using InterfaceBuilder under 2.x, go to the Project
> Inspector, click on Attributes, and check the File Package
> box in the lower left hand corner.  [Presumably ProjectBuilder
> in 3.0 will offer something similar.]
> 
> >Once it is created is there any trick to the open/save panels  
recognizing
> >it as a package and not a plain directory?
> 
> Yes.  The class is "hardwired" to treat directories with .app
> suffixes specially.
> 

Again, what I think Kevin meant is a file package, not an app wrapper. I'd  
like yo know how to do this too. (I already knew how to make an app  
wrapper, besides in 3.0 it's the only thing you can do).

Gordon
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Subject: Re: Packages
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