Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!bu.edu!snorkelwacker!apple!stevec
From: stevec@Apple.COM (Steve Christensen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Data Fork Of Currently Running APPL
Message-ID: <9022@goofy.Apple.COM>
Date: 6 Jul 90 21:01:51 GMT
References: <UaYrSJu00WB9Q6sY9w@andrew.cmu.edu>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA
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In article <UaYrSJu00WB9Q6sY9w@andrew.cmu.edu> Cameron Christopher Long writes:
>I am working on a program that stores data in its data fork. Currently,
>I am opening the data fork using FOPEN since I know the name of the APPL.
>However, if someone renames the program, how will I know what to open?

Use GetAppParms() to get the app's name.  It's described in the Segment Loader
chapter of Inside Mac volume II.

steve