Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!bellcore!tness7!tness1!sugar!peter
From: peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: RESOURCES (as in disk-resources)
Message-ID: <1961@sugar.UUCP>
Date: 11 May 88 02:54:44 GMT
References: <8805080154.AA23107@cory.Berkeley.EDU>
Organization: Sugar Land UNIX - Houston, TX
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In article ... dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon) writes:
>	The question
> is, should I *force* the application program to also specify a structure
> name along with the resource name?

I think so. It's an important security check. If it's going to be used like
IFF, it's going to be used with alien files. You need to be able to specify
what sort of thing you need, as well as its name.
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