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From: russotto@wam.UMD.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: What is OpenRFPerm doing?!?
Message-ID: <8904171942.AA00475@vs03csc.UMD.EDU>
Date: 17 Apr 89 19:42:17 GMT
References: <1146@uvm-gen.UUCP>
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In article <1146@uvm-gen.UUCP> chaffee@uvm-gen.UUCP (Alex D. Chaffee) writes:
>Help!  All I did was open a resource file with the following call
>	OpenRFPerm(fName, vRefNum, (SignedByte)fsRdWrPerm);
>and my resources got mangled.  After the call, my Alerts show all the
>signs of being handles to nowhere (i.e. they seem to be appearing off-screen,
>they beep occasionally...).
>fName and vRefNum come straight from SFGetFile's reply record, and there
>are no ALRTs in the file I opened...  Can anybody remember when _they_
>were inexperienced and ran into something like this?
>
>Thanks,
>Alex Chaffee
>chaffee@uvm-gen.uvm.edu
>
>-- 
>Alex Chaffee
>chaffee@uvm-gen.uvm.edu
>Disclaimer: The ideas expressed above were implanted in my brain by Martians
>-----

Is this MPW C?  In MPW 2.0.x, at least, you need to call
p2cstr(&fName);
and then make the call using the pointer, i.e.:
OpenRFPerm(&fName, vRefNum, (SignedByte)fsRdWrPerm);


-- 
	Matthew T. Russotto
	russotto@wam.umd.edu
	<insert witty expression here>