Re: [MacPerl] more info from FSpGetFInfo

[pudge@pobox.com (Chris Nandor)]

At 18.33 1998.02.25, Axel Rose wrote:
>Just wondering whether the additional stat() could be
>saved if FSpGetFInfo() could return creation time,
>modification time and size.
>
>I have no idea if this is a limitation in the Toolbox
>call.
>If not this is just a suggestion for extending FSpGetFInfo
>for the author (Matthias?).

Well, what the FInfo object provides is all in the documentation:

    FInfo

         Information for a file, including:

            OSType          fdType          the type of the file
            OSType          fdCreator       file's creator
            U16             fdFlags         flags ex.
hasbundle,invisible,locked, etc.
            Point           fdLocation      file's location in folder

Anyway, you can also use FSpGetCatInfo instead, which offers other fields.

creation time   ioFlCrDat
mod time        ioFlMdDat

Size is really tricky.  Depends on what you really want.  Usually, you want
to add the resource and data forks together, which would be:

ioFlLgLen + ioFlRLgLen

  #!perl -w
  use Mac::Files;
  $x = 'PowerPudgeII:Desktop Folder:moovs:movies.pl';
  $y = FSpGetCatInfo($x);
  printf "$x (%s bytes)\n  created:  %s\n  modified: %s\n",
    ($y->ioFlLgLen() + $y->ioFlRLgLen()),
    scalar localtime($y->ioFlCrDat()),
    scalar localtime($y->ioFlMdDat());

Returns:

  PowerPudgeII:Desktop Folder:moovs:movies.pl (1123 bytes)
    created:  Sat Feb 21 18:12:03 1998
    modified: Sat Feb 21 18:36:50 1998

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