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From: nerm@Apple.COM (Dean Yu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Isn't there an OpenResFile where you supply a VRefNum?
Message-ID: <52201@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 30 Apr 91 21:46:45 GMT
References: <1655@babcock.cerc.wvu.wvnet.edu> <1991Apr30.092548.26555@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
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In article <1991Apr30.092548.26555@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> resnick@cogsci.uiuc.edu (Pete Resnick) writes:
>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;
>

In System 7, there's also:

FUNCTION HOpenResFile(vRefNum: INTEGER;dirID: LONGINT;fileName: Str255;
    permission: SignedByte): INTEGER;
PROCEDURE HCreateResFile(vRefNum: INTEGER;dirID: LONGINT;fileName: Str255);

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

  I think these two were introduced in 6.0.x, or maybe just as glue in MPW.

  -- Dean Yu
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