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From: lagana@zip.eecs.umich.edu (Antonio A Lagana)
Subject: Getting Strings To Work, Need HELP!
Message-ID: <1991Jun16.224559.12609@zip.eecs.umich.edu>
Organization: University of Michigan EECS Dept.
Distribution: usa
Date: Sun, 16 Jun 1991 22:45:59 GMT

I have a (very dumb, but it's driving me nuts!!!) small question for the Mac 
(or for that matter, C) programmers on the net.  I have started attempting to
program on the Mac using Think C and I am having no success in getting a simple
file renaming to work.  Could somebody tell me what is wrong with the following
and the correct way to do it?

#include <MacTypes.h>
#include <FileMgr.h>
...

main() 
{
	...
	Str255		oldname="\pHD105:Old File Name";
	Str255		newname="\pHD105:New File Name";
	...

	...
	Rename(oldname,vRefNum,newname);
	...
}

No matter what combination I use (StrPtr, char, char *, char [], etc.) I cannot
get the rename to work.  I am a relative beginner at programming in C, at least
as far as strings are concerned, so please bear that in mind when replying :).
Please e-mail to the below address as I think that this is not of general 
interest.    

Thanks in advance,

Antonio A. Lagana
lagana@zip.eecs.umich.edu