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From: spencer@heinlein.osc.edu (Stephen N. Spencer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Getting the full pathname?
Message-ID: <351@oscsuna.osc.edu>
Date: 16 Oct 89 12:05:24 GMT
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In article <111@crucible.UUCP> al@crucible.UUCP (Al Evans) writes:
>In article <850zebolskyd@yvax.byu.edu> zebolskyd@yvax.byu.edu writes:
>
>>If you want the _user_ to be able to see the pathname (and find their way to
>>the file) you can use PBGetWDInfo to get the dirID from your working
>>directory, then PBGetCatInfo to get that directory's parent's dirID, and
>>so on until to get to dirID=2, which will be the root. You get the names
>		       ^^^^^^^
>      Although this seems to be true, it doesn't seem to be documented :-(
>

Apple seems to use it (the dirID == 2 test for checking for root directory):
look at their sample code concering the Standard File Package.  While not
hard documentation, it does lend some validity to the test.

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