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- From: d88-jwa@dront.nada.kth.se (Jon Wtte)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
- Subject: Re: FSOpen and System 7 Alias
- Message-ID: <1992Dec15.115704.22614@kth.se>
- Date: 15 Dec 92 11:57:04 GMT
- References: <1992Dec14.155040.8270@bcrka451.bnr.ca>
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- Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
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- In <1992Dec14.155040.8270@bcrka451.bnr.ca> Anthony Van Alphen <ava@bnr.ca> writes:
-
- >If I write an application and use the standard FSOpen FSRead functions
- >supplied with
- >MPW can the file be aliased and the alias opened? When I try to open an
- >alias I think I
- >am opening the alias itself. Is there a trick? Or am I doing something
- >wrong?
-
- Actually, FSOpen and FSRead are supplied by the operating system...
-
- Anyway, if you read the chapter on the Alias Manager in Inside Mac VI,
- you'll see that Standard File and the Finder resolves aliases for you,
- but other files you open must first be passed to ResolveAliasFile.
-
- Cheers,
-
- / h+
-
- --
- -- Jon W{tte, h+@nada.kth.se, Mac Hacker Deluxe --
- The word "politics" is derived from the word "poly", meaning
- "many", and the word "ticks", meaning "blood sucking parasites".
- -- Larry Hardiman
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