Re: [MacPerl] GetFileInfo--link vs. file

[Matthias Ulrich Neeracher <neeri@iis.ee.ethz.ch>]

will@pinncomp.com (Will Trillich) writes:
>I know that stat() will check the file pointed to [aliased?], while lstat()
>gets info on the alias itself. But that's just the standard unix-like
>(non-mac) info.
>
>QUESTION:
>How to tell GetFileInfo() the difference?

You can't, right now. Eventually, I'd like to have a bit more truth in file
specification with flags specifying whether one would like to have pathnames
or FSSpecs returned, and wether to resolve file names. However, that is
not implemented yet.

Matthias

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