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From: dorner@pequod.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Dorner)
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Subject: Re: Re-opening my resource file.
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Date: 19 Mar 91 15:50:17 GMT
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In article <1991Mar19.002406.23347@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> resnick@cogsci.uiuc.edu (Pete Resnick) writes:
>re-open? I can store the filename and vRefNum or DirID into the code
>itself, but this seems like a pain, let alone the fact that some bozo
>might change my file name or something like that. Does anyone have any
>recommendations of a better way?

MacTCP searches for its creator and type in the blessed folder.  This is
broken under 7.0, but a variant (searching for your creator and type in
the blessed folder and (all?) subfolders) might be reasonable.
--
Steve Dorner, U of Illinois Computing Services Office
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