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From: dent@unocss.unomaha.edu (dent)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: File access privs?
Message-ID: <2609@unocss.unomaha.edu>
Date: 19 Mar 90 23:35:31 GMT
Organization: U. of Nebraska at Omaha
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I'm using a HyperCard stack as a front-end for applications on an AppleShare
file server in a user room environment.

Some of the applications on the server are in folders with restricted access,
and I need to be able to find out if they are "private" in such a way that
I can tell the user what is going on, so he does get the "Where Is This
Supposed Application You Want Me To Open?" dialogue.  :-)

Does anyone have an XFCN that returns 1 if a file exists?  That's all I
really need, since AppleShare won't even let the Finder know the file is
there, right?  (If the user does not have access to the particular
folder it is in, I mean.)

Thanks for any help you might be able to offer...

-/ Dave Caplinger /---------------------------------------------------------
 Microcomputer Specialist,   Campus Computing,   Univ. of Nebraska at Omaha
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