Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!apple!sun-barr!newstop!texsun!pollux!ti-csl!m2!leeke
From: leeke@m2.csc.ti.com (Steve Leeke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Saving vRefNum's
Message-ID: <84106@ti-csl.csc.ti.com>
Date: 14 Jul 89 20:38:05 GMT
References: <84039@ti-csl.csc.ti.com> <1471@garcon.cso.uiuc.edu>
Sender: news@ti-csl.csc.ti.com
Reply-To: leeke@m2.UUCP (Steve Leeke)
Organization: TI Computer Science Center, Dallas
Lines: 22

In article <1471@garcon.cso.uiuc.edu> dorner@pequod.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Dorner) writes:
>In article <84039@ti-csl.csc.ti.com> leeke@m2.UUCP (Steve Leeke) writes:
>>I would like to be able to recursively scavange a directory for a
>>certain type of file and save the vRefNum when a file of a certain
>>type is found.  I've included to code I'm using by it seems to cause
>>problems since the working directory is closed after I save the
>>vRefNum, but if I leave it open I wind up with too many working
>>directories open.  Any suggestions?
>
>Save the DirId instead of the vRefNum.  You can always open it as a working
>directory later, when you actually intend to USE it.  The DirId is also
>unique forever for a particular directory on a particular volume.
>-- 
>Steve Dorner, U of Illinois Computing Services Office
>Internet: s-dorner@uiuc.edu  UUCP: {convex,uunet}!uiucuxc!dorner
>IfUMust:  (217) 244-1765

Steve & Earle:

This is exactly what I wound up doing and it works great.  Many thanks!

Steve Leeke