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From: bochner@speed.harvard.EDU (Harry Bochner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: How to set EOF of "resource" file to 0?
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Date: 4 May 90 15:19:40 GMT
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In article <5544@helios.ee.lbl.gov>, beard@ux1.lbl.gov (Patrick C Beard)
writes:

|>You said it, use OpenRF, and SetEOF of that to 0.  That has always worked
|>for me.  If you don't the Resource fork will still contain the old 
|>resource map I believe.

At this point you no longer have a resource map, and so I don't think the
Resource Manager will open it. I think that after the SetEOF you need do
the call
(I don't remember the name) to create a new resource fork.
               
Harry Bochner
bochner@endor.harvard.edu