Thanks for the reply Brian,
I think I need to first obtain a copy of OSX then I can do my own trials.

Cheers
Bernie




Brian replied:

>> To ensure any Future apps will run in OS9 & OSX, what should I be using
>> instead of:
>> 
>> 1. SYSTEM(_aplVol)
>> 
>> 2. FOLDER(path$,vol)
>> 
>> TIA
>> Bernie
>> 
> Bernie,
> 
> I don't recall seeing anything saying you can't use system(_apVol) to
> save files to the application volume. I think Andy is handling this
> beneath the covers for us. He has also given us some gems like fn
> FBWDtoPBWD(pb&) to help make our existing routines that use vrefnums
> continue to work. FOLDER using pathnames risks the problems mentioned
> here many times and is discouraged by Apple (or course they pushed
> FSSPecs and now they have said 63 character file names will be too
> small - not sure how they will (or if) move the FSSpecs structure
> forward). For my code I have set up a general FN to find any folder I
> pass to it and return an FSSpec record. This seems to work and keeps
> OS X happy.
> 
> Brian
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