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From: d88-jwa@dront.nada.kth.se (Jon W{tte)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Memory Protection (was: Gripes)
Message-ID: <1991Jan31.162116.17969@nada.kth.se>
Date: 31 Jan 91 16:21:16 GMT
References: <1991Jan25.183443.2825@waikato.ac.nz> <1991Jan25.213652.26781@cbnewsk.att.com> <1991Jan29.074646.7218@actrix.gen.nz> <1991Jan29.230848.1851@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
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In article <> dorner@pequod.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Dorner) writes:

>You like checking to see if HFS is active?

You like to program for machines with < 512k for System AND application
AND data ? Try MS-DOS !

What's the market anyway ?

>You like the fact that the high-level calls are incredibly wimpy, and the
>PB calls use the Parameter Block From Hell?

>to do, but could be avoided with a smarter high-level interface than
>FSOpen (like, let me specify a dirId, and what permissions I want; who

HOpen ? It works with systems >= 4.2...

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::::::::       Jon W{tte, Stockholm, Sweden, h+@nada.kth.se       ::::::::
"The IM-IV file manager chapter documents zillions of calls, all of which
seem to do almost the same thing and none of which seem to do what I want
them to do."  --  Juri Munkki (jmunkki@hut.fi) in comp.sys.mac.programmer