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From: hartkopf@tramp.Colorado.EDU (Jeff Hartkopf)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: GS/OS calls--how?
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Date: 12 Oct 89 22:55:55 GMT
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Reply-To: hartkopf@tramp.Colorado.EDU (Jeff Hartkopf)
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I'm attempting to learn how to use GS/OS calls, and have come up with  
some questions.  Things don't seem to be working the same way as they did
with the ProDOS 16 calls.

For example, to get file info on a file, I did something like


GSString255 s = {13, "/hd/test.file"};
FileInfoRecGS filerec;

filerec.pathname = &s;
filerec.pCount = (word) 2;
GetFileInfoGS(&filerec);


At first I didn't assign anything to the pCount variable and kept
getting errors, so after a little experimentation, I found that 2 seems
to work.  But what is the pCount field of most of the GS/OS records for?

When I did the above, I just seemed to get garbage values for the fileType,
access, auxType, createDateTime, modDateTime, etc., fields.  What am I doing
wrong?  Do any other fields besides pathname and pCount have to be pre-set 
before I call GetFileInfoGS()?

Thanks very much for any help.


Jeff Hartkopf

Internet:
hartkopf@tramp.Colorado.EDU