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From: mneerach@inf.ethz.ch (Matthias Ulrich Neeracher)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Data Fork Of Currently Running APPL
Message-ID: <29607@ethz-inf.UUCP>
Date: 13 Jul 90 10:11:36 GMT
References: <81985@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> <561@ohs.UUCP>
Organization: Informatik ETH Zurich
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In article <561@ohs.UUCP> bhil@ohs.UUCP (Brian T. Hill) writes:
>From article <81985@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>, by topping@chinook.cis.ohio-state.edu (brian e topping):
>> If you are working in C you can use the argv[] argument vectors passed to
>> the main() procedure.  The name of the program will be in a C string pointed
>> to by argv[0].  If you want the dirID, you can get it by a _GetVol to find
>> the working directory followed by a _GetWDInfo to find the dirID before you
>> do any file system calls that change the world as the application started.
>Hmm.  I think I've read somewhere (TechNote maybe?) that you can't get the
>application's dirID by getting the current dirID when the application is
>first opened.  Apparently, this method will fail if the application was
>Launched by another application or some variation of that theme.

There is also a (quite useful) INIT called DFaultD which lets users change
the default folder at startup. As soon as somebody decides to use this with
your application, there care problems.

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