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- From: rla20@duts.ccc.amdahl.com (Roger Allen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
- Subject: Re: How to store file references/names ?
- Message-ID: <c90v02oQ2b3l01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 16:59:41 GMT
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- In article <19J603sDbc5K00@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com> alan@uts.amdahl.com (Alan Bomberger) writes:
- >Since you have to keep full path names one wonders why
- >one would use DirIDs?
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- This is in case the user moves the folder containing the file to another
- location, the volName, dirID and fileName method will work.
-
- BTW, thanks to all of the people in this thread, I hadn't considered that a
- something could mess up the dirID and I will be putting that code in my
- program... (SC 16 didn't mention that :^) Isn't c.s.m.p great!
-
- Thanks,
- Roger.
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