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From: resnick@cogsci.uiuc.edu (Pete Resnick)
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Subject: Re: Isn't there an OpenResFile where you supply a VRefNum?
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Date: 30 Apr 91 09:25:48 GMT
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vrm@blackwater.cerc.wvu.wvnet.edu (Vasile R. Montan) writes:

>The usual OpenResFile takes a string as its arguement.  This
>string is the filename of the resource file to be opened.

>Isn't there a newer function which does the same thing, but
>which also takes a volume reference number so that the
>location of the file can be specified?  I seem to remember
>reading about such a procedure somewhere, but I can't find
>the documentation now when I look.

Inside Macintosh IV, p. 17:

FUNCTION OpenRFPerm (fileName: Str255; vRefNum: INTEGER;
           permission: Byte) : INTEGER;

>If there is such a procedure, when was it introduced?  With
>the MacPlus ROM?

Yup.

pr
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