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From: lsr@Apple.COM (Larry Rosenstein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: System 7.0 & Aliases
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Date: 26 Aug 89 01:33:01 GMT
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References:<1989Aug23.180141.16033@mentor.com> <10516@claris.com>

In article <10516@claris.com> peirce@claris.com (Michael Peirce) writes:
> 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.  

The preliminary documentation describes a call to exchange the contents of 
2 files while retaining their ids.  I don't know if this is still the approach being taken.

Larry Rosenstein, Apple Computer, Inc.
Object Specialist

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