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From: guido@boring.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: how to rename a volume with a toolbox call? (the answer!)
Message-ID: <6540@boring.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 30-Jul-85 16:07:33 EDT
Article-I.D.: boring.6540
Posted: Tue Jul 30 16:07:33 1985
Date-Received: Thu, 1-Aug-85 05:06:10 EDT
References: <6531@boring.UUCP>
Reply-To: guido@mcvax.UUCP (Guido van Rossum)
Organization: "Stamp Out BASIC" Committee, CWI, Amsterdam
Lines: 11
Summary: Append a colon (:) to both the old and the new name.
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In article <6531@boring.UUCP> I wrote:
>Can anyone explain me how I can rename a Volume (= disk) using some
>toolbox call from within an application I'm writing (in C)?

Today the answer came by mail from seismo!ihnp4!spuxll!ech (=Ned=):
use [PB]Rename, appending a colon (:) to both the old and the new name.

Apple, please listen: it was absolutely impossible to deduce this from
inside Macintosh.  Could someone clarify this passage in the next version?

	Guido van Rossum, CWI, Amsterdam (guido@mcvax.UUCP)