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From: siegel@endor.harvard.edu (Rich Siegel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: _delete and _rename with inline in MacPascal?
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Date: 17 Aug 90 13:20:13 GMT
References: <1990Aug17.063356.20418@agate.berkeley.edu>
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In article <1990Aug17.063356.20418@agate.berkeley.edu> bmyers@garnet.berkeley.edu (Brian Myers) writes:
>
> I am working in MacPascal.  (I have to; that's not negotiable.)  This
>package, because it's intended for educational use, gives you access to
>a lot of the Mac traps only through inlines.  Whenever I try to delete
>or rename a file using the low-level file i/o routines Delete and Rename,
>I get an error message saying "an invalid trap number has been given to
>inline or generic."  I have double checked the trap numbers in several
>references, and they are correct.  Any ideas?

	_Rename and _Delete are register-based traps, so you need to 
use the Generic trap interface, instead of Inline.

R.


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