On Tue, 22 May 2001, Danny Epstein wrote:
[...]
> > We know about 'appl' type, and special treatment
> > of 'DATA' types.. anything else?
>
> I'm not sure what you're referring to here. I don't know of any special
> treatment of 'DATA' databases (or 'Data' or 'data'). There are several other
> special types besides 'appl' though. See SystemResources.h for a list of
> them. For example:
> - The type 'ovly' is used to indicate that a database is an overlay for the
> application with the same creator ID.
> - The type 'panl' is used to indicate a Prefs panel.
> - The type 'pqa ' (that's a space at the end) is used to identify a PQA.
>
> The last one violates our naming conventions, but all the others consist
> entirely of lowercase letters. If you create a database that uses any of our
> reserved types, it could be treated by the OS as something it's not. Of
> course, this is fine if it's intentional. It's okay to create overlays, for
> example. But you wouldn't want a shopping-list app to store your grocery
> list in a database of type 'ovly'.
> --
> Danny
The only reason I mention 'DATA' is because I remember from a discussion a
long time ago that there was some speculation that 'DATA' was treated
specially by the Backup Conduit, something about syncing or not syncing
those databases if there was a conduit associated with their app.
Sorry I don't rmember specifics, it's one of those things that I made a
note of, never verified for myself, and all I remember is that I made a
note of it, but not what the note was. :)
--
Brian Mathis
Direct Edge
http://www.directedge.com
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