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From: schorsch@oxy.edu (Brent William Schorsch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Standard File and Working directories...
Message-ID: <174023@tiger.oxy.edu>
Date: 22 Jun 91 04:12:53 GMT
Organization: Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA  90041
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If you have severe allergies to the File Manager skip this posting...

Glad to see a few die hards still reading this!  Anyway, I have some
questions regarding WD's.  I have used the File Manager fairly often,
yet still get confused every now and then...

What I need to do is to take the Global Variables SFSaveDisk and
CurDirStore and turn them into a WDDirID (the same thing that Standard
File would return).  I dont need explicit code, just the File Manager
Routines needed for the conversion and a simple set of instructions.

The next thing, is once I get a WDDirID, can I just use it as though
SFGetFile returned it to me, or will the working directory need to
be opened before I cal SetVol(0, theWDDirID)?  Or anything else?
If this is the case how does Standard File do it (that is return the ID
of an OPEN WD without the guarantee that it will later be able to close it?)

Any light you can shed on this is more that just appreciated, it is
saving me money I would otherwise have to pay my analyst after hours
of frustration from dealing with the File Manager...

Thanks.  Ando Moon.