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From: ech@pegasus.ATT.COM (Edward C Horvath)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Scrap Management, User Preferences
Message-ID: <2835@pegasus.ATT.COM>
Date: 28 Apr 89 15:21:02 GMT
References: <1867@etive.ed.ac.uk>
Organization: AT&T ISL Middletown NJ USA
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From article <1867@etive.ed.ac.uk>, by nick@lfcs.ed.ac.uk (Nick Rothwell):
> In article <28905@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> oster@dewey.soe.berkeley.edu.UUCP (David Phillip Oster) writes:
>>A file, either data or resoruce, that you find using poor-man's-search-path,

> I presume you mean a hard-wired path like "::System Folder:Config" or
> something...

No, don't use hardwired pathnames if you can avoid it.  The PMSP is not a
convention, it's documented in various TechNotes, but see especially TN 77
(others: 69, 101, 214).  The PMSP is used when you use an ioVRefNum of 0 to
an _Open trap, and searches the default directory (usually the AppRefNum,
unless you've called SetVol), the BootDrive (0x210) and the Blessed folder
(as reported by SysEnvirons) in that order.

=Ned Horvath=