NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #18/NN_1992_18.iso/spool/comp/sys/mac/programm/14135

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From: [e-mail] (Dave Newman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Storing a reference to a file ..
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 92 18:06:05 PST
Organization: Notable Technologies, Inc.
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In article <[e-mail]> (comp.sys.mac.programmer), [e-mail] (Reynir Hugason) writes:
| Ok here is the scenario: I have a project file. I want to store from within
| the project file, which files are included in the project and some info
| about each file. Presently I simply take the FSSpec and save it; however,
| this is not suffiecent. What happens is that my program cant find files
| if I start up from another disk. The only solution I can imagine is to
| store the volume name and perhaps creation date of the volume as well ANDOR
| use these file id things.
|
| How would you do it?

As someone else noted, you can save aliases to the files. That doesn't work
so well if you're going to sell into the population of Macs that don't run
System 7. In that case, your suggest should work fairly well (FSSpec, vol
name and vol creation date&time)

BTW - System 6 and older doesn't have FSSpecs, but it's not hard to gather
up all the info that goes into an FSSpec using the older file system calls.

--Dave

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