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Re: How to get DirID

on 5/15/2003 6:35 PM, David Duncan at email@hidden wrote:

> On Thursday, May 15, 2003, at 09:05 PM, Everett Sanmann wrote:
>
>> I believe it is valid to pass 0 for the directory id and volume id in
>> FSMakeFSSpec.
>
> You should not pass 0 for the Directory/Volume ID to FSMakeFSSpec. It
> produces different results on MacOS 9 and MacOS X and neither result is
> documented as the correct or expected result. If you want to locate a
> file relative to your application's location, you should instead use
> GetProcessInformation() or one of the appropriate CFBundle APIs.

Actually, 0/0 is relative to the current volume and directory.

Now, 9 and X set the "current volume and directory" differently, so you
should use other means to get "relative to the current application" but 0/0
is a valid vRefNum/dirID pair for FSMakeFSSpec.

--
Glenn L. Austin <><
Computer Wizard and Race Car Driver
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<http://www.austin-home.com/glenn/>
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