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From: silverio@brahms.berkeley.edu (C J Silverio)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: SFGetFolder
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Date: 14 Nov 89 18:25:26 GMT
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jb@aries5 asks:
   Has anybody written a SFGetFolder/SFPutFolder routine -- What I want to be
   able to do is select or create a folder in a nice manner.

Keith Rollin, Apple DTS whipping boy, kindly replies:
   MacDTS has released a sample program that shows you how to do this,
   among other tricks with StdFile. You can get this from APDA, BBS's and
   finer FTP sites everywhere, including ours.

Here's the rough plan for FTP'ing the stuff from Apple.com. Remember
to be courteous about hogging resources. Also, there is so much code
(over 2 Megs unstuffed) that it might be cheaper and easier to buy it
from APDA.

I haven't had much time to look at all the code, but it seems really
helpful. I only had one system crash (a good one!) in the whole pile.

1 ftp apple.com as anonymous, supply userid as password.
2 cd /pub/dts/mac/sc.
3 get files like unto a crazy person.
4 Use Stuffit! to upack all this. The stuffed files require 3 800K
  floppies. At 1200 baud, this will take 70 quadrillion years
  (subjective time) to download.

Thanks, Apple DTS, for supplying this bounty. It's half of what I need
to be a good Mac programmer.