Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!gate.oxy.edu!oxy!schorsch From: schorsch@oxy.edu (Brent William Schorsch) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer Subject: Re: Standard File and Working directories... Message-ID: <174203@tiger.oxy.edu> Date: 24 Jun 91 04:44:01 GMT References: Organization: Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA 90041 Lines: 23 OK, about WD's and all this. If you've been following, I originally posted code requesting how to convert CurDirStore and SFSaveDisk into a WDDirID; The whole world has come back at me and said, "Ack! Don't use Working Directories, you'll kill yourself!" OK, again. So I didnt want to let the cat out of the bag (no big secret anyway) but I am writing an entire replacement for Standard File Routines... Thus I *have* to be able to open a WD to pass back to calling applications to maintain compatibility (in 7.0 using the BO~?FSSpecs are great, easy and no problem). Ok, again again. So who knows the scoop on using this WD's properly. Should my extention open them with ProcID of 'ERIK' or my creator? Should I leave them open (and let the system close them--or will it) or should I close them at some specific time? (And does that time have to been when the app I returned a WDDirID to quit in case it stored the ID and can use it any time it is open?) Any pitfals, suggestions you know of? Please let me, better yet, us all, know. Thanks. Ando Ok, last Ok. Ok? (Or is double Caps--OK--Apple?)