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From: gandreas@umn-d-ub.D.UMN.EDU (Glenn Andreas)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Standard File Question
Message-ID: <1101@umn-d-ub.D.UMN.EDU>
Date: 12 Jun 89 13:49:43 GMT
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Reply-To: gandreas@ub.d.umn.edu.UUCP (Glenn Andreas)
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In article <5739@hubcap.clemson.edu> mikeoro@hubcap.clemson.edu (Michael K O'Rourke) writes:
>IM-4 and a Technote state that the global variables SFSaveDisk and CurDirSTore
>contain the negative of the volume reference number and the directory id of
>what standard file is currently looking at.
>
>I tried acessing these variables using the locations given in the technote, but
>they always give me the same values of 532 and 920.  These values are the
>same when i am in or out of the calls.
>
532 happens to be the address of SFSaveDisk.  920 is probably the address of
CurDirStore (it's not in the back of Knaster, and I didn't bother to look
through the MPW assembler equates).

What you need is to do is look at the word (or long word) stored there.
Remember, with the exception of Quickdraw "globals", globals are low memory
locations.

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