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Re: How to get DirID

>Hi,
>I'm totally new to MAC OS so please bear with my stupid question. But I
>really need help. Actually I'm trying to create a file for which I need to
>create a FSSpec. I'm useing the function FSMakeFSSpec. In carbon
>documentaiton it is specified that you must pass a valid directory id and
>volume id in FSMakeFSSpec. But I could not find a function which gives me
>the dirID by giving the path. Please help

If you have the path you can use FSPathMakeRef() to creat a FSRef. It's suggested to use FSRef's rather than FSSpec's, anyway. But if you really need an FSSpec you can convert the FSRef into an FSSpec using FSGetCatalogInfo().

Hope that helps.

Roland Blaser
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