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From: 6600pete@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu (GurgleKat [Pete Gontier])
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Subject: Re: THINK Pascal vs. PBGetFCBInfo on System file
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Date: 2 Mar 90 19:14:21 GMT
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From article <1987@husc6.harvard.edu>, by siegel@endor.harvard.edu (Rich Siegel):
> In article <4107@hub.UUCP> 6600pete@ucbsuxa.ucsb.edu (GurgleKat [Pete Gontier]) writes:
>>when I try to call PBGetFCBInfo while in the THINK Pascal environment,
>>everything hangs about 75% of the time.
> 	I would suggest that you use the approach given in Technical Note
> #67 ("Finding the blessed Folder"), which describes how to find the dirID
> of the system folder using a PBHGetVInfo. I suspect it's considerably safer
> than screwing around with the resource map ordering.

You're probably right. However, that doesn't answer my question. I may want
to use PBGetFCBInfo at some point in the future and I might run into this
problem then, as well. Anyway, the problem has managed to 'go away.' It lasted
across several boot cycles, so I was convinced it wasn't the state of the
machine. Now it seems to work OK.
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