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From: lsr@Apple.COM (Larry Rosenstein)
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Subject: Re: file system calls and resource file calls
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Date: 22 May 89 20:38:47 GMT
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In article <24103@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> korfhage@lanai.cs.ucla.edu writes:
> 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.

The easiest thing to do is to call SetVol to set the current directory to 
the one returned by Std File, and then use the filename in the 
CreateResFile call.  (You may want to precede this by a call to GetVol to 
save the old current directory.)

You will also want to consult Tech Notes 101 & 214.  101 explains that you 
should call the Create function first, to create the file, before calling 
CreateResFile.  The reason is that CreateResFile tries to open the 
resource file first, but because of the Poor Man's Search Path it may find 
a file with the same name in the System Folder.

Tech Note 214 describes new MPW glue routines that do this stuff for you.

Larry Rosenstein, Apple Computer, Inc.
Object Specialist

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