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From: mm5l+@andrew.cmu.edu (Matthew Mashyna)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: INIT getting it's file name...
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Date: 26 Oct 89 13:56:30 GMT
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Ando Sonenblick: sonenbli@oxy.edu writes:

>...is there any way
>for an INIT to get the name of the file it is in?  I need to later open
>the resource fork of the file and I want the user to be able to change
the
>name of the file; hence, my INIT needs to be able to read in the file
name.

Check the latest issue of MacTutor: Writing INITs in Think C, by J.
Peter Hoddie.


findMyName(name)
Str255 name;
{
	FCBPRec p;

	p.ioCompletion = 0;
	p.ioRefNum = CurResFile();
	p.ioVRefNum = 0;
	p.ioNamePtr = (StringPtr) name;
	
	PBGetFCBInfo(&p,false);

	BlockMove( p.ioNamePtr,&name, 1 + *(char *)(p.ioNamePtr) );
}

Matt Mashyna
Macintosh Initiative,
H&SS Dean's Office
Carnegie Mellon