Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!keith From: keith@Apple.COM (Keith Rollin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer Subject: Re: stdio, THINK C and APPLs Message-ID: <47608@apple.Apple.COM> Date: 28 Dec 90 00:37:28 GMT References: <1990Dec24.182548.17958@svc.portal.com> <1990Dec27.183436.3786@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA Lines: 22 In article <1990Dec27.183436.3786@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> dorner@pequod.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Dorner) writes: >In article <1990Dec24.182548.17958@svc.portal.com> daven@svc.portal.com writes: >>>If the data fork assumption is correct, is this The Way It Should Be? How >>This is The Way It Should Be! > >Horse puppies! > >It would be easy enough to add another file "mode" to fopen (and another >flag bit to open), to give you the choice of data or resource forks. I wonder >why the library writers don't do it? Because the resource fork should be read ONLY with the the Resource Manager. Unless, of course, you are writing some sort of resource fork diagnostic program. In which case you aren't going to be portable anyway, and could easily use the File Manager calls. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Keith Rollin --- Apple Computer, Inc. --- Developer Technical Support INTERNET: keith@apple.com UUCP: {decwrl, hoptoad, nsc, sun, amdahl}!apple!keith "Argue for your Apple, and sure enough, it's yours" - Keith Rollin, Contusions