On Sat, 01 Oct 2005 17:00:05, Laurence Harris <email@hidden> wrote:
> On 10/1/05 1:25 AM, Patrick McClaughry didst favor us with:
>
>> To tell the truth I do not know, but I'll try to find out and post
>> what I find.
>
> That would be great. Thanks. BTW, that was supposed to say "My application
> lets people *set* the name-locked bit." There isn't any point in letting
> them set an obsolete bit, hence my question.
I'd allow people to set/inspect *all* bits (and everything else
in FInfo/FXInfo), even if it doesn't make sense now. Provide nice
UI for those bits/fields that makes sense now, but also provide
some UI to set/inspect other fields (hex-view, or something
fancier like "fdFlags bit 5", "fdIconID", etc). I hate it when
ResEdit prohibits me setting "bundle" bit on folders, presumably
because it didn't make sense back in time when ResEdit was designed.
[It doesn't allow me to set dates on folders which made perfect
sense even at the time.]
> FWIW, my vote is for the Finder to respect that bit. ;-)
Mike
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