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From: swick@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ralph R. Swick)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Resource Retrieval & Usage problem
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Date: 10 Aug 88 13:33:11 GMT
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> Is there a problem with doing that?  Am I taking a risk with doing what I'm
> doing?

Yes and Yes.  The next version of the Intrinsics will have a supported
way to retrieve the resource database associated with a display.  Your
'discovery' is going to disappear in the next release and your code
will break.