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From: peter@hari.Viewlogic.COM (Peter Colby)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: stdio, THINK C and APPLs
Message-ID: <1990Dec28.114031@hari.Viewlogic.COM>
Date: 28 Dec 90 16:40:31 GMT
References: <1990Dec24.182548.17958@svc.portal.com> <1990Dec27.183436.3786@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <47608@apple.Apple.COM> <1990Dec28.162334.20490@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
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In article <1990Dec28.162334.20490@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>,
dorner@pequod.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Dorner) writes:
|> In article <47608@apple.Apple.COM> keith@Apple.COM (Keith Rollin)
writes:
|> >Because the resource fork should be read ONLY with the the Resource
|> >Manager.
|> 
|> Horse puppies, again.
|> 
|> Apple provides OpenRF, and allows the reference number thus returned
to
|> be used in any of the file manager functions (read, write, etc).
|> 
|> I see NO reason why this behavior shouldn't be exactly mirrored in
the
|> C library.  If it was good enough to put in ROM, it's good enough to
|> add the half-dozen lines of code to open and fopen to make it
available to
|> them as well.  We're not talking about a large investment in time or
|> code size.
|> 
|> Arbitrary restrictions are almost always a bad idea.
|> --
|> Steve Dorner, U of Illinois Computing Services Office
|> Internet: s-dorner@uiuc.edu  UUCP: uunet!uiucuxc!uiuc.edu!s-dorner

	Well Good Grief! If it's that important to you, why don't
you just fix the library yourself, to your specification. I believe
that Symantic/THINK provides the source code to the ANSI libraries.

	Peter C.

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