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From: sampson@cod.NOSC.MIL (Charles H. Sampson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Full Path Names (Was: Launching application returned in an SFReply record.)
Message-ID: <2079@cod.NOSC.MIL>
Date: 22 Aug 90 20:29:21 GMT
References: <25810@cs.yale.edu>
Reply-To: sampson@cod.nosc.mil.UUCP (Charles H. Sampson)
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In article <25810@cs.yale.edu> braun-eric@CS.YALE.EDU (Eric E. Braun) writes:
>  ...  Is there any function hidden in IM somplace that returns a full
>path name given an SFReply?

   At least two respondents have given routines that generate the full path
name.  I haven't analyzed them to see if they work (they probably do), but one
problem with this approach is that the generated path name could theoretically
be longer than 255 characters (the maximum size of Str255).  I doubt that such
a case would ever arise in the real world.  Does anyone know of a case where
where it did?

                            Charlie Sampson