Brian,

do you have a small working example on what you are doing?

Martin

Bernie Wylde wrote:

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