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From: dlyons@Apple.COM (David A. Lyons)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: ProDOS files under ORCA/C
Keywords: prodos
Message-ID: <42398@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 27 Jun 90 06:44:53 GMT
References: <348@ankh.ftl.fl.us>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
Lines: 38

In article <348@ankh.ftl.fl.us> chin@ankh.ftl.fl.us (Albert Chin) writes:
>I am trying to do a GET_FILE_INFO using the <prodos.h> header and I
>am having problems. Here is what I do:
>
>  ...
>  FileRec fileinfo;
>  ...
>  strcpy(fileinfo.pathname,"/myfile");
>  GET_FILE_INFO(&fileinfo);
>  printf("%u %u\n",fileinfo.fAccess,fileinfo.fileType);
>  ...

Assuming you have not assigned a value to the pathname field of fileinfo,
your strcpy is wrong, because it's using a random value as the target
address for the copy.

If your have a hard-coded pathname, try:

   fileinfo.pathname = "\p*/system/desk.accs/my.desk.acc";

for example (the \p makes it a Pascal string, meaning that the first byte
is a length count).

If your string isn't hard-coded, then do something like:

   char myString[256];
   ...
   fileinfo.pathname = myString;

Copy your real string into myString at your convenience.
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