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From: Peter.Colby@f20.n226.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Peter Colby)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: stdio, THINK C and APPLs
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Date: 29 Dec 90 00:40:31 GMT
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In article <1990Dec28.162334.20490@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>,
dorner@pequod.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Dorner) writes:
I> In article <47608@apple.Apple.COM> keith@Apple.COM (Keith Rollin)
writes:
I> >Because the resource fork should be read ONLY with the the Resource
I> >Manager.
I> 
I> Horse puppies, again.
I> 
I> Apple provides OpenRF, and allows the reference number thus returned
to
I> be used in any of the file manager functions (read, write, etc).
I> 
I> I see NO reason why this behavior shouldn't be exactly mirrored in
the
I> C library.  If it was good enough to put in ROM, it's good enough to
I> add the half-dozen lines of code to open and fopen to make it
available to
I> them as well.  We're not talking about a large investment in time or
I> code size.
I> 
I> Arbitrary restrictions are almost always a bad idea.
I> --
I> Steve Dorner, U of Illinois Computing Services Office
I> 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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