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From: borcelf@jacobs.cs.orst.edu (Fernando Borcel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: HFS Help
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Date: 21 Sep 89 00:54:23 GMT
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Reply-To: borcelf@jacobs.cs.orst.edu (Fernando Borcel)
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I have a question that IM doesn't seem to answer too clearly...  A vRefNum is
a number assigned to the volume during runtime, or is it a number I can trust
so when the next time I want to open a file in volume vRefNum I will be able to?

Is it a reliable way to find a file?

Thanks a lot.


                       (*)(*)(*) Fernando Borcel (*)(*)(*)
                           borcelf@jacobs.cs.orst.edu
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