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From: dorner@pequod.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Dorner)
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Subject: Re: Yikes: Using both resource & data forks of a file
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Date: 17 Apr 91 13:46:45 GMT
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>map for OpenRFPerm() to load, thus the EOF error. You must, therefore,
>create the map (and other needed space) in the resource fork with
>a CreateResFile() call. This is *certainly* not obvious from IM.

Since I almost always end up using the resource forks of files I create
(window position info, for one), I ALWAYS use CreateResFile,  not Create,
to create files.  I then don't have to do any special monkeying around to
use either fork.
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Steve Dorner, U of Illinois Computing Services Office
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