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From: tim@hoptoad.uucp (Tim Maroney)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Finding vRefNum of my current directory
Message-ID: <15955@hoptoad.uucp>
Date: 8 Mar 91 19:39:19 GMT
References: <1991Mar4.012719.6329@uvm.edu>
Reply-To: tim@hoptoad.UUCP (Tim Maroney)
Organization: Electronics for Imaging, San Bruno CA
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In article <1991Mar4.012719.6329@uvm.edu> tan@emily.uvm.edu ( get a tan) writes:
> I am presently working on a Mac program in which I need to find the vRefNum
>of my current directory/folder. I can't seem to figure out how to get this
>without knowing the folder name, or how to get the folder name without
>the vRefNum. Am I missing something in the ToolBox reference manuals?
>Any help would be greatly appreciated! Ah, the price of multitasking....

There are really two current directories.  The Standard File current
directory is specified by the SFSaveDisk/CurDirStore pair.  The file
system current directory is given by GetVol.  Do a GetVol; this will
give you a working directory reference number.  If this is all you need,
fine.  If you need to decompose it into a volume reference number and
a directory id, then use PBGetWDInfo, as I just described to another
poster.
-- 
Tim Maroney, Mac Software Consultant, sun!hoptoad!tim, tim@toad.com

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