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From: tim@hoptoad.uucp (Tim Maroney)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: PBHGetVInfo returns noErr but volRefNum=-1
Message-ID: <11343@hoptoad.uucp>
Date: 8 May 90 19:37:36 GMT
References: <9166@tank.uchicago.edu>
Reply-To: tim@hoptoad.UUCP (Tim Maroney)
Organization: Eclectic Software, San Francisco
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In article <9166@tank.uchicago.edu> gft_robert@gsbacd.uchicago.edu writes:
>Well, I have for the first time delved into the PB calls, and am having some
>problems.  At one point in my program I'm trying to convert a volume name to a
>vol ref num and I do the following:
>        
>I get noErr (0) for theOSErr, but ioVRefNum comes back as -1.  What am I doing
>wrong?  

Nothing.  -1 is a perfectly valid volume reference number.  Volume
reference numbers are small negative integers.
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Tim Maroney, Mac Software Consultant, sun!hoptoad!tim, tim@toad.com

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