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From: keith@Apple.COM (Keith Rollin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Gripes about System 7.0
Message-ID: <48580@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 28 Jan 91 23:06:36 GMT
References: <2936@casbah.acns.nwu.edu> <2939@casbah.acns.nwu.edu>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA
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In article <2939@casbah.acns.nwu.edu> jln@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (John Norstad) writes:
>In article <1991Jan24.224108.19413@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> 
>dorner@pequod.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Dorner) writes:
>> Apple has a lot of problems in their task; ... and a filesystem
>> that doesn't drive you batty) ...
>
>Apple has cleaned up the file system quite a bit in 7.0.  There are new 
>high-level File Manger routines which use "FSSpec" records to identify 
>files.  An FSSPec record identifies a file by it's volume reference 
>number, directory id, and file name.  I've been working with these calls 
>lately, and they really are a major improvement.
>
>The big problem is that the new calls only work under System 7.0, and they 
>only work with HFS volumes.  One of the things I've been working on is a 
>"glue" module that will make them work on all systems, even old 64K ROM 
>systems, and with MFS volumes.

I just got out of a File Manager Chapter review meeting where I found
out that the FSpXXX calls will work on MFS volumes. However, you can
still only call them from System 7.0.

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