Re: [MacPerl] FSpFileCopy Questions...

[Chris Nandor <pudge@pobox.com>]

At 22:14 -0700 1999.08.06, Rob Sirota wrote:
>In using FSpFileCopy I notice that it only returns a 1 if the file has
>been created and a 0 otherwise, is this correct?

Probably.  That's the Perl Way.


>does it return MacOS
>errors?

None of the toolbox functions do.  They return a struct of come kind, some
data, or 1 (TRUE) or 0/undef (FALSE).


>Also if the file in the dest already exists it does not replace
>it, is this also correct?

See the Inside Macintosh docs for the function.

>Do I need to check to see if the src and dst
>are valid before doing the FSpFileCopy?

I don't know, try and see.  :)

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