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From: tim@hoptoad.uucp (Tim Maroney)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: INIT getting it's file name...
Message-ID: <8851@hoptoad.uucp>
Date: 31 Oct 89 02:29:19 GMT
References: <56505@tiger.oxy.edu> <4020@helios.ee.lbl.gov> <14362@well.UUCP>
Reply-To: tim@hoptoad.UUCP (Tim Maroney)
Organization: Eclectic Software, San Francisco
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In article <14362@well.UUCP> svc@well.UUCP (Leonard Rosenthol) writes:
>	I don't know what all this mess is about searching the System Folder,
>etc. as that is a REAL PAIN,

What?  How?  I've done it in several pieces of code.  The File Manager
makes it tremendously easy, by using indexed files with PBGetFInfo.
It's a very straightforward loop!

>So here is the piece of code that
>I use for getting not only my INIT's name, but also the vRefNum (OK, WDRefNum)
>where I am.

But like about three-quarters of the people who answered this question,
you ignored his explicitly stated requirement that he wants the user to
be able to rename the file.  That means that he can't just save the
file name at INIT run time, because it could change -- and later, he
can't use CurrResFile to find out its file descriptor!  PBGetFCBInfo
is completely irrelevant to this problem.

Kind of sloppy from someone whose first disagreement with me here was
posting a mega-flame on how absolutely necessary it is to allow INIT
files to be renamed, Leonard.
-- 
Tim Maroney, Mac Software Consultant, sun!hoptoad!tim, tim@toad.com

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