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From: earleh@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Earle R. Horton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: DialogManager's TEHandle & FileName Question
Keywords: DialogManager, TextEdit, FileManager, Questions
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Date: 9 Jun 89 02:35:29 GMT
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In article <8316@killer.DALLAS.TX.US> lietb@killer.DALLAS.TX.US
	(Tjeng-Bo Lie) writes:
>
>Two questions to the net...
...
>2.  How do I get the name of the application running?  I'm trying to save
>    some default parms in my application's Data Fork...

     GetAppParms will get you the name, and a GetVol in your
initialization code will get you the location of your application
file.  Unless these default parameters are read-only, however, this
scheme will generate problems in some environments (e.g. file
servers).

     Do not write to your open application file, either fork, from
within the application.  Use a separate configuration file if you must
save information between invocations of your program.

Earle R. Horton

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