Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!uvabick!thomas
From: thomas@uvabick.UUCP (Thomas Fruin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: How I hate MPW stdio...
Summary: MPW stdio also changes creator
Message-ID: <270@uvabick.UUCP>
Date: 17 Jun 88 14:22:53 GMT
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 > I just discovered a VERY interesting little fact about using stdio
 > from MPW C.

And I just discovered an interesting little fact about using stdio
from MPW Pascal ... correct me if I'm wrong:

Every file you open, even if you never change the file but only read
from it, gets its creator changed by MPW to 'MPS '.  Since I'm working
on a program that also tests the creator in a standard file filter,
this was a problem.  I appeared as if gradually files were disappearing,
since they didn't show up in standard file anymore after an open...

Now I have to make sure to call SetFInfo whenever I'm through with a file :(

-- Thomas Fruin

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