Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!usc!apple!blob
From: blob@Apple.COM (Brian Bechtel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: PBGetCatInfo question
Message-ID: <45563@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 11 Oct 90 15:05:27 GMT
References: <90283.191801CXT105@psuvm.psu.edu>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA
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CXT105@psuvm.psu.edu (Christopher Tate) writes:

>Are indexed calls to PBGetCatInfo() guaranteed to return file/folder
>names in alphabetical position?  That is, if I start with 1 and call
>PBGetCatInfo() for every index, one at a time, until I get an error,
>are the names of the folders/files that I've looked at in alphabetical
>order?

>Or, do I have to alphabetize my list of file/folder names myself,
>after going through the above procedure?

PBCatInfo() currently returns file/folder names in alphabetical order on
HFS disks.  There is no guarantee that this behavior will be true on
disks created by other file systems such as MS-DOS, ISO 9660, High
Sierra, Apple II, etc. which can be read by the Macintosh.

The behavior may still be there; it just isn't guaranteed.

--Brian Bechtel		blob@apple.com		"My opinion, not Apple's"