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CHAPTER 1
About Network Setup
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entity, it creates a resource containing the preference data with the resource type
matching the preference type and the resource ID the same as the 'cnam'
resource.
Network Setup uses a number of private preferences to ensure a reliable round
trip conversion between legacy preferences files and the database. The
preference types are described in “Common Preference Types” (page 106), but
your application should not depend on their presence, their content, or their
semantics.
If you find undocumented preferences (such as a preference of type 'vers') in a
global protocol entity, do not be concerned. Network Setup itself does not
actually look at the data as it imports from and exports to legacy preferences
files.
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Table 1-1 summarizes the different versions of Network Setup, their features,
and their release vehicles.
There is no easy way to determine the version of Network Setup installed on a
system. The best way to test for the presence of a specific Network Setup API
enhancement is to weak link to its symbol, as described in TN 1083, “Weak
Linking to a Code Fragment Manager-based Shared Library.”
Table 1-1 Network Setup versions
Version Mac OS version New features
1.0 Mac OS 8.5
1.0.1 Not released
OTCfgGetAreaName
1.0.2 Mac OS 8.6 OTCfgInstallNotifier,
OTCfgRemoveNotifier
1.1 Not released OTCfgEncrypt,
OTCfgDecrypt
1.1.1 Mac OS 9.0