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From: peirce@claris.com (Michael Peirce)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: System 7.0 & Aliases
Message-ID: <10516@claris.com>
Date: 25 Aug 89 01:41:10 GMT
References: <1989Aug23.180141.16033@mentor.com>
Reply-To: peirce@claris.com (Michael Peirce)
Organization: Claris Corporation, Santa Clara CA
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In article <1989Aug23.180141.16033@mentor.com> tomc@mentor.com (Tom Carstensen) writes:
>> Note, this means that your Save command had better write the data back 
>> into the original file, and not into some newly created file that it will
>> rename if the write succeeds. (if it destroys the original in the course
>> of the save, it will disconect any aliases that file might have.)
>

My understanding was that save/rename would still be the preferred Save command
technique.  System 7 would provide a SetTheFileIDPlease call so that the
the sequence would become something like (1) save new file, (2) get old file
ID, (3) delete old file, (4) set new file's ID to the old file's ID.  

Of course system 7 is always subject to change and the above is remembered
from info gathered at the developer's conference.

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