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I need some information on ways in which I can access some of the
undocumented features of the Finder.  I am specifically interested in
finding a way to read, into my application, the information kept in the FCMT
resource in the DeskTop file.  The FCMT (Finder Comment) resource is the
text that is displayed in the "Get Info..." dialog box.  The FCMT resource
itself is simply a pascal string.

The problem is, that the FCMT resource's do not map directly to any FREF's
in the DeskTop file.  Therefore, I need to find out how I can map a
particular FCMT resource to a particular filename.  I'm pretty sure that the
FOBJ DeskTop resource has something to do with this however it is, as far as
I can tell, not documentated.

Also, If anyone knows if Apple intends to change the way in which the FCMT
information is organized with the new version of the Finder, I would also be
interested in hearing about it.  Obviously I realize that since this is not
documented in Inside Macintosh it will probably change, however I would like
to get the information anyways.


Any ideas,thoughts or experiences relating to this problem, would be much
appreciated.  
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Steve Upp
University of Chicago 
Computation Center
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