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Re: suggestions to developer...
- Subject: Re: suggestions to developer...
- From: fmlin@terapin.com (Frank M. Lin)
- Date: 1 Feb 93 19:26:34 PST
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Organization: BBS
- References: <uerics.728347606@mcl>
>Any program which uses its own resource fork to save preferences
>annoys me because I have to reformat my har drive fairly often
>(apparently I have a system glitch that occasionally blasts things and
>wipes out my hard drive). When I do so, I lose my configuration...
>normally, I back up all my config. files and such before reformatting.
Hmm... I never had problems with config. files like that. One thing I don't
like about programsthat use resources is because resource forks usually have
blank spaces in them; after normal reading and writing... It's probably only
wasting a few bytes, but...
>Keeping all of the configuration files in *:System is standard
>procedure; however, I'm considering coding my programs to use
>*:System:Preferences if it exists (I wouldn't create it myself).
Why don't yoout just code it so that if it creates it only if it's not already
there. I don't know, its only a small uggestion. :)
frank m. lin
fmlin@terapin.com