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- From: sichase@csa3.lbl.gov (SCOTT I CHASE)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.programmer
- Subject: Re: Neat ResEdit 2.1.1 'Feature'
- Date: 29 Jul 92 21:11:24 GMT
- Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory - Berkeley, CA, USA
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- References: <1992Jul29.135547.4216@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- In article <1992Jul29.135547.4216@midway.uchicago.edu>, ejw1@kimbark.uchicago.edu (Eric Weidl) writes...
- > While working with ResEdit the other day, my klutzy fingers discovered
- >an neat feature. To see it, select the Open... item from the File menu. Then
- >select a file in the standard file dialog. Now, hold down the option key
- >while clicking the Open button.
- >
- > ResEdit will open a window displaying the status of its check of the
- >file's resource fork. Yet another undocumented feature in a Apple product.
-
- This *is* documented (and very useful!). It is way in the back of the
- Resedit manual published by Addison Wesley, in a section on useful advanced
- hints.
-
- -Scott
- --------------------
- Scott I. Chase "The question seems to be of such a character
- SICHASE@CSA2.LBL.GOV that if I should come to life after my death
- and some mathematician were to tell me that it
- had been definitely settled, I think I would
- immediately drop dead again." - Vandiver
-