Re: [MacPerl] Three questions

[John W Baxter <jwblist@olympus.net>]

At 22:35 -0600 2/18/98, Paul DuBois wrote:
>(1) Can I get a Macintosh's owner name from MacPerl?  (The owner name
>as specified in the File Sharing control panel -- possibly the same
>thing as what used to be known as the chooser name.)  I presume this
>can be gotten as one of the Internet Config values, but can it be
>done if IC isn't installed?

'STR ' resource id -16413

(It's in the System file in the ordinary case, so it should always be
available.)

Inside Mac--More Macintosh Toolbox page 1-127 (which lists several other
useful things).

I don't think this part of IM has been repealed...it likely doesn't carry
into "yellow box" (but I don't much care).

  --John

--
John Baxter (Born before ENIAC, but not by much.)
   jwblist@olympus.net      Port Ludlow, WA, USA



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