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Article #6163Re: Directory name from DirID?
From: Gunnar Blomberg
Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1986 02:05
Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1986 02:05
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In article <20@harvard.UUCP> olson@endor.UUCP (Eric Olson) writes: >In article <158@zyx.UUCP> grzm@zyx.UUCP (me) writes: >>In article <157@zyx.UUCP> grzm@zyx.UUCP (me) writes: >>> >>> Is there a way to get the directory name from the directory id, >>>without searching through the directory tree or going to disk yourself? >> >> Yes, well, I just found out how to do it (after some serious >>macsbugging...). It seems that if you pass -1 as the FDirIndex to [...] > >Unfortunately, this only works if you are referencing the directory with >a WDRefNum (essentially, a VRefNum-like number that refers to a volume AND >a directory). [...] > >-Eric Well, it works for me... Also, I have since gotten my hands onto Tech Note 69, which explicitly says it should work. /Grzm -- Gunnar Blomberg, ZYX, +46 8 653205, ...mcvax!enea!zyx!grzm
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!mcvax!enea!zyx!grzm From: grzm@zyx.UUCP (Gunnar Blomberg) Newsgroups: net.micro.mac Subject: Re: Directory name from DirID? Message-ID: <163@zyx.UUCP> Date: Thu, 19-Jun-86 22:05:53 EDT Article-I.D.: zyx.163 Posted: Thu Jun 19 22:05:53 1986 Date-Received: Mon, 23-Jun-86 03:33:35 EDT References: <157@zyx.UUCP> <158@zyx.UUCP> <20@harvard.UUCP> Reply-To: grzm@zyx.UUCP (Gunnar Blomberg) Organization: ZYX AB, Stockholm, Sweden Lines: 22 Keywords: HFS