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From: vallon@sboslab2.cs.sunysb.edu (Justin Vallon)
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Subject: Re: Some files missing from SFGetFile Dialogs. What's wrong?
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Date: 12 Jan 90 04:25:53 GMT
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In article <30533@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU>, korfhage@lanai.cs.ucla.edu writes:
> [Disappearing TEXT files.  They don't appear in SFGetFile dialogs, but are]
> [double-clickable in the Finder.]

You used DiskTop to compare the two files to each other, but does DiskTop
display the file version?  There a little bug/problem in Inside Macintosh,
namely that HCreate does take a version number, but it isn't listed in
the required parameters in the parameter block.

So, the problem you may be experiencing may be that the creator application
is not setting the file version to zero.  SFGetFile filters out all files
with non-zero versions, but the Finder displays them.

Get a program/DA that displays version numbers (try Fedit+ or MacTools), and
you may have found the problem.  Then again, maybe not.

BTW:  Version numbers were supposed to disappear in HFS.

>  Willard Korfhage   ARPA : korfhage@pucatt.poly.edu, korfhage@cs.ucla.edu
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-Justin
vallon@sbcs.sunysb.edu