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- From: mforget@elfhaven.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Michel Forget)
- Subject: Re: Cookie Jar
- Date: Sat, 11 Jun 1994 01:38:12 -0600
- Precedence: bulk
-
- Hello Evan,
-
- [>Anyway, there is a solution to both problems. Provide a GEMDOS call to
- [>manipulate the cookie jar. It won't require super-visor mode since it
- [>will be called within the GEMDOS trap (making it automatically in super-visor
- [>mode, so the program code won't have to bother), and GEMDOS traps can be
- [>called from just about ANY programming language. Unix-heads will also be
- [>satisfied as the cookie jar can be protected so that any program can read
- [>it but only privaledged programs can modify it.
-
- While this is an interesting idea, you go on to explain that it will be a
- part of MiNT. Not everyone uses MiNT; I have no use for it because I am
- in a limited memory situation. People who use Mag!X, or Geneva, or
- MultiGEM, or the plain-old-desktop would be left out in the cold. This
- would not really be a good idea unless it could easily be implemented
- on every system...
-
- I like the system-file idea much more, since it does not require any
- changes to the system itself and does not reside in memory. It is
- easy enough to parse, too.
-
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