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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
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Organization: Northwestern U, Evanston IL, USA
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> 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