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From: moore@june.cs.washington.edu (Charles Moore)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: opening files from an XCMD, revisited
Keywords: file access, Lightspeed C, XCMD
Message-ID: <7947@june.cs.washington.edu>
Date: 22 Apr 89 08:19:54 GMT
Organization: U of Washington, Computer Science, Seattle
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Several people responded to my earlier note by saying that I should use
the File Manager routines, FSOpen, FSRead, etc. instead of the Lightspeed
C stdio routines.  Thank you for that help.  Regardless of whether it is
possible to use the stdio routines by including the stdio source code
in the code resource project, I have taken the advice of the majority and
switched to the Toolbox File Manager.  Unfortunately, I still have the
same problem.  In a stand alone application I can use the File Manager
routines just fine to access an existing file.  The same code in an
XCMD, however, results in a "file not found" error.  This is somewhat
baffling.  Could it be that Hypercard has somehow twiddled the default
volume information or is there some other explanation?

Charles Moore