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From: tim@hoptoad.uucp (Tim Maroney)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: How to tell if a volume is a floppy drive?
Message-ID: <12229@hoptoad.uucp>
Date: 3 Sep 90 07:15:48 GMT
References: <1517@ntmtv.UUCP> <9794@goofy.Apple.COM> <7796@gollum.twg.com> <9874@goofy.Apple.COM> <3900@wucc.waseda.ac.jp> <690@dbase.A-T.COM>
Reply-To: tim@hoptoad.UUCP (Tim Maroney)
Organization: Electronics for Imaging, San Bruno CA
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In article <690@dbase.A-T.COM> cy@dbase.UUCP (Cy Shuster) writes:
>Always clear out your PB blocks: before every call!

No offense, but I think that's terrible advice.  All you have to do is
set the particular parameters listed as significant in the call.  The
arrow is only deceptive in the case of ioNamePtr, which is sometimes
listed as a left arrow only, even though you need to set it
meaningfully on entry.

We all know what wonders of efficient performance Ashton-Tate's Mac
applications are.  If this is what A-T considers good programming
practice, that may have something to do with it.
-- 
Tim Maroney, Mac Software Consultant, sun!hoptoad!tim, tim@toad.com

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