Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!mailrus!ncar!tank!nucsrl!accuvax.nwu.edu!bob From: bob@accuvax.nwu.edu (Bob Hablutzel) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer Subject: Re: Opening an application's Data Fork Message-ID: <10050055@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 2 Dec 88 14:48:35 GMT References: <2090@uokmax.UUCP> Organization: Northwestern U, Evanston IL, USA Lines: 10 > I am writing an application and will be storing some data in the data fork of > the application. What I need is the routine to call when I first boot the > application to get the name of the application so I can use FSOpen to the > data fork for the application. The call you want is GetAppParms, documented on page II-58 of Inside Macintosh. If returns the application name, resource for refnum, and a handle to the application Finder information. Bob Hablutzel BOB@NUACC.ACNS.NWU.EDU