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From: d88-jwa@dront.nada.kth.se (Jon W{tte)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: stdio, THINK C and APPLs
Message-ID: <1991Jan8.172240.25890@nada.kth.se>
Date: 8 Jan 91 17:22:40 GMT
References: <640.2783DEFA@busker.fidonet.org> <1991Jan7.224021.9163@svc.portal.com> <1991Jan8.160431.3537@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
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In article <1991Jan8.160431.3537@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> dorner@pequod.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Dorner) writes:
>[c'mon: dirid's, vref's, wdnums, PMSP, the PB calls (which you HAVE to
>use if you want to open a file with other than read/write permission)],
>and the less the novice HAS to know about it the better.

HOpen ? HCreate ? HOpenResFile ?

>How many of you hate apps that don't preserve the resource fork?

What's wrong with SetEOF ( refNum , 0L )  ??? No messing with a
delete that might use the PMSP, and preservation of the resource
fork.

							H+

Jon W{tte, Stockholm, Sweden, h+@nada.kth.se