Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!uunet!midway!midway.uchicago.edu!francis From: francis@zaphod.uchicago.edu (Francis Stracke) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer Subject: Re: Standard File and Working directories... Message-ID: Date: 27 Jun 91 04:51:55 GMT References: <1991Jun26.084825.9019@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> <54370@apple.Apple.COM> Sender: news@midway.uchicago.edu (NewsMistress) Organization: Mathematics Department, University of Chicago Lines: 21 In-Reply-To: keith@Apple.COM's message of 27 Jun 91 02: 06:49 GMT In article <54370@apple.Apple.COM> keith@Apple.COM (Keith Rollin) writes: >There are only two reasons for creating working directories: >- If you are launching another application that expects to find its > location by making a GetVol call. >- If you are writing a hack that involves part of the system that > still uses working directories. For example, one person was > patching StdFile and needed to create WD's. Another person > wanted to fake out INIT 31 and needed to create WD's. Is there some way, prior to Sys7, to open a resource file (i.e., for resources, not just the resource fork) without a WD? -- /============================================================================\ | Francis Stracke | My opinions are my own. I don't steal them.| | Department of Mathematics |=============================================| | University of Chicago | What do you get if you multiply 6 by 9? | | francis@zaphod.uchicago.edu | --Ultimate Question | \============================================================================/