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From: korfhage@lanai.cs.ucla.edu
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Subject: file system calls and resource file calls
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Date: 19 May 89 19:54:49 GMT
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   I have some simulations in which I write results to a file, then add a
Disktop-readable comment (a CEKI resource) with simultion parameters.
However, I use SFPutFile to get the file name, and that gives me a name and
a directory reference. When I open up the file to write in the CEKI
resource, the call (e.g.  CreateResFile) wants an absolute pathname, and
not a name-and-directory-reference.
   That wouldn't be troubling, except that I don't see any convenient way
to convert a name-and-directory-reference into an absolute path name.
Plenty of program do this, so what's the trick?
   Alternatively, I could use OpenRF to open the resource fork, but the
implication in _Macintosh_Revealed_ is that I will have to do some
extra housekeeping myself if I use OpenRF instead of OpenResFile and its kin.
Is this so?
   The former (conversion) would be preferable to the latter (new calls)
because I already have working code that uses the XXXResFile calls.

   Thanks for any help.

   Willard Korfhage

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