Re: [MacPerl] Running two (or more?) copies of MacPerl

["Alex K Suska" <aksuska@insideflyer.com>]

>At 10.58 -0500 1998.11.02, Jeff at MacTech wrote:
>>Or, maybe it pick's the latest entry in the Desktop database. (Actually,
>>this sounds familiar--that the Finder tends to use the version last
>>installed, regardless of creation or modification date.)
>
>Oops, it is creation date, not modification date.  But I think you are
>right about entries into the Desktop database ... probably in the case of a
>tie in creation date, it then moves to most recent entry in the Desktop,
>which means that rebuilding the Desktop can change which one is called.
>
>From Inside Mac: MTb 9-15 (PBDTGetAPPL): "A single call, with ioIndex set
>to 0, finds the application file with the most recent creation date."
>
>That confirms my experiences with opening things from the Finder and from
>MacPerl's FSpDTGetAPPL() call.
>

As a small clarification, the creation date (as well as modification date) of a
file is not "updated" when files are duplicated (or copied). It must have to do
with entries into the Desktop DB.

-Alex

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