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From: boortz@sics.se (Kent Boortz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: How to get dirID?
Message-ID: <1990Aug17.115842.5018@sics.se>
Date: 17 Aug 90 11:58:42 GMT
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Organization: Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Kista
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I try to find the directory ID of a directory that is located in the
top directory/volume. Could anyone give me some advice, this code
does not work. Instead it gives me the working directory.

	GetVol(volName,&volRefNum);

	ci->fileParam.ioFDirIndex = 0;
	ci->fileParam.ioDirID = 0;
	ci->fileParam.ioVRefNum = volRefNum;
	ci->fileParam.ioNamePtr = (StringPtr)"\pMyDirName";
	
	if ((PBGetCatInfo(ci, false) == noErr) && 
	    (ci->fileParam.ioFlAttrib & ioDirMask)) 
		return ci->fileParam.ioDirID;

Kent Boortz
boortz@sics.se