Chris Hanson wrote:
> On 2006-08-29 02:33:42 -0700, "kunal" <talktokunal@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> said:
>
>> how to find out, whether an application is installed on the MAC or
>> not....??
>
> The only sure way to know is to exhaustively search all mounted volumes.
>
> What is it that you're really trying to accomplish?
>
> -- Chris
>
There used to be a registry file of applications under MacOS Classic.
Are you saying that there isn't one under MacOS X? I can see how generic
UNIX executables might not be registered, but it seems very lax of Apple
not to create and continuously update a registry of all .app executables
in order to assist the Finder with doing its job.
In fact, I'm almost certain there is one. Perhaps there's no API for
applications programers to use it, but I don't think the Finder could
display as fast as it does at startup without a cache of this kind of
info available somewhere...
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