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

[Vicki Brown <vlb@cfcl.com>]

At 08:16 -0800 11/2/98, Chris Nandor wrote:
> 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.

Well, I don't have any good place to look this up, but I can speak from
experience.  If you've got two copies of the same app installed and you
rebuild the desktop data base, the one that launches may no longer be the
one you expected (a way to find out you have an older version installed :-(

I've had this happen, at least prior to 8.0.  In 8.0 I haven't noticed.
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