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From: keith@Apple.COM (Keith Rollin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Changes to Standard File under System 7
Message-ID: <53538@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 31 May 91 17:55:38 GMT
References: <16448@reed.UUCP> <1991May31.055056.13676@colorado.edu>
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In article <1991May31.055056.13676@colorado.edu> pratt@csn.org (Jonathan Pratt) writes:
>I'd like someone in the know to tell me the reasoning behind a couple of
>annoying changes to the old standard file calls under the new system.
>
>In SFPGetFile, when you enter zero for the number of file types you
>now get all the files, whereas before you got none, which was convenient
>for setting directories.  I know you can easily work around this by
>supplying a file filter, but what's the point of this change?  You could
>already use numTypes = -1 if you wanted to see all the files.

Under System 6.0.x, passing zero for numTypes is undefined. The
last time I reviewed the Standard File chapter for IM VI, that
operation was undefined for System 7.0, too (I haven't seen IM VI
final, yet. Apparently, Addison Wesley is too busy mailing them
to Quantum Books in Boston to let Apple have any).

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