In a message dated 7/13/98 6:07 AM, Patrick A. D. Grimont wrote:

>How can I prevent interference with MacLinkPlus ?
>
>My program reads TIFF, PICT and some other formats for image analysis. Thus
>I force images to be in 256 grey levels with a CLUT I control.
>Unfortunately, when opening a TIFF file produced by Ofoto (Apple's scanner
>program), MacLinkPlus interferes changing the TIFF file into PICT (and
>often a different depth or CLUT). I can prevent this by modifying the MacOS
>easy open setting (no automatic conversion), but then, I loose some
>automatic quicktime conversion (JIFF to PICT) occasionally needed.
>
>Any idea ?

Disable MacLinkPlus and MacOS Easy Open.

These two extensions been known to cause serious problems with resources. 
 In worst cases they were directly involved in file corruption by causing 
AddResource to fail silently.  This was especiall evident in OS 7.6.1; 
but was also known to happen in OS 8+.  They aren't worth the trouble if 
you ask me.  You can use GraphicConverter to convert files if you need 
to.  Graphic Converter does not cause AddResource to fail (to my 
knowledge).  ;-)

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