On Friday, October 5, 2001, at 01:53 AM, Harry Zink wrote:
> (granted, easy fixes, but I was kinda hoping
> that the move to the Unix platform would have eliminated this kind of
> problem
Actually, moving to a unix-like kernel doesn't end up have any impact on
the applications' use of preferences files. Plain text files are more
common by convention under unix, but there is nothing about unix itself
that either encourages or discourages it. As I'm sure you know, unix
doesn't actually have any standards for configuration files.
Additionally, apps like IE weren't ported to unix per say, they were
ported to Carbon, a subset of Mac OS APIs. Carbon runs on Mach, but that
doesn't affect high-level things like preference files. In fact, if they
wanted to, Apple could have moved the preferences to plain text XML
files back in Mac OS 9.
This all may be old news to you, though...
> -- particularly since the NeXT advocates have often accused
> 'resource forks' to be the cause of such corruptions.
Erroneously, I believe. Resource forks are separate.
Take it easy,
- Scott
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