On 9/29/05 5:10 PM, Denis @ TheOffice didst favor us with:
>> Why are you using paths and FSSpecs?
> That is temporary until I rewrite all my file access routines.
>
>> Are you aware that this function
>> can fail because not all file names can be encoded into a Pascal string, and
>> that only the first 31 characters of that field are used?
> Yes, I am aware, In another function it wants the OutFSSpec->name in pascal.
>
> The actual path of "~/..." may come from user entry and or some internal code
> that assume Linux
> style.
If the path can come from user entry then there should be no Pascal strings
anywhere in this process. OTOH, you probably know more about all this than I
do, so never mind. ;-)
Larry
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Laurence Harris" <email@hidden>
> To: "Denis @ TheOffice" <email@hidden>; <email@hidden>
> Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2005 4:31 PM
> Subject: Re: Can't convert path ~/... to Fsref
>
>
>> On 9/29/05 4:28 PM, Denis @ TheOffice didst favor us with:
>>
>>> Re: Can't convert path ~/... to FsrefThanks,
>>> But, I fail to see how to integrate that into my code.
>>> I am trying to do a generic function that will handle all possible entry.
>>> Plus I was hopping for something in Carbon.
>>
>> Why are you using paths and FSSpecs? Why not FSRefs? Where are you getting
>> these paths that they have tildas in them? Are you aware that this function
>> can fail because not all file names can be encoded into a Pascal string, and
>> that only the first 31 characters of that field are used?
>>
>> Larry
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: Rosyna
>>> To: Denis @ TheOffice ; email@hidden
>>> Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2005 4:01 PM
>>> Subject: Re: Can't convert path ~/... to Fsref
>>>
>>>
>>> man 3 glob
>>>
>>>
>>> http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man3/glob
>>> .3
>>> .html
>>>
>>>
>>> Ack, at 9/29/05, Denis @ TheOffice said:
>>>
>>>
>>> I am trying to create/open a file with the origine in posix example
>>> "~/Library/Preferences/temp.tiff"
>>>
>>> I have made a function to convert based on some example I have found...
>>> It works most of the time but seems to failed with the TILDE(~) current
>>> user...
>>> The RetStatus is -43 rectory not found...
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>>
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