Inside Macintosh: Files
This section describes the data structures and routines used in this chapter to illustrate basic file management operations. The section "Data Structures" shows the Pascal data structures for the file system specification record and the standard file reply record. The sections that follow describe the Standard File Package routines for opening and saving documents and the File Manager routines for accessing files, manipulating files and directories, accessing volumes, and getting information about documents to be opened when your application is launched.
For a description of other file-related data structures and routines, see the chapters "File Manager" and "Standard File Package" in this book.