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

[Chris Nandor <pudge@pobox.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.

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