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From: mahboud@excelan.COM (Mahboud Zabetian)
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Subject: Re: INIT getting it's file name...
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Date: 26 Oct 89 17:59:51 GMT
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In article <56505@tiger.oxy.edu> sonenbli@oxy.edu (Andrew D. Sonenblick) writes:
>     Ok, this is a quick one but it is very important: 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.
>Please inform me or the whole net of any solution.  Thanks.
>
>Ando Sonenblick: sonenbli@oxy.edu

You might want to try looking for the file by type and creator, and not by
filename.  Users will almost never change those.  Then you won't have to worry 
about carrying around a filename string.

-mahboud