alexis@dasys1.UUCP (Alexis Rosen) (09/20/88)
In article <4027@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU> dorourke@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (David M. O'Rourke) writes: > I have found some strange resource showing up several places. Many of my >applications, system file, finder, and desktop have a resource of type: >"*MAP" in them. I have looked at the resource and it is rather short and >appears to be harmless. But it is in so many places I was wondering if anyone >else has ever seen anything like this, and if so where did it come from?? Ha. You should have seen the look on my face when I figured out what they were. They are little "presents" left behind by Servant, MiniServant, and maybe one other Hertzfeld Special. They are much like the DeskTop file only they apply to individual resources within a file rather than to the files within a volume. You create them automatically whenever you open a file as a collection of resources. Deleting them won't cause any trouble. Neither will letting them be, except they take up a little space. Note that there's a slightly different resource that also begins with a '*' that sits in your desktop file. You can kill this too if you see it. ---- Alexis Rosen {allegra,philabs,cmcl2}!phri\ Writing from {harpo,cmcl2}!cucard!dasys1!alexis The Big Electric Cat {portal,well,sun}!hoptoad/ Public UNIX Best path: uunet!dasys1!alexis