Re: [MacPerl] FindFolder puzzler

[Chris Nandor <pudge@pobox.com>]

I wrote:
> At 23.05 -0800 2000.02.23, John W Baxter wrote:
> >At 20:45 -0800 2/23/00, Brian McNett wrote:
> >>That's the paths to the standard folders and their TYPEs, not the
> files
> >>therein.  Unless that's what you WANT, you've still got some work to
> do.
> >
> >And I think it's no longer the paths to *all* the standard folders,
> which
> >now include the Applications and Documents folders (Documents is more
> >important in Mac OS 9 than it has been since OpenDoc bit the dust), the
> >Scripting Additions folder (the one in the System Folder, not the
> obsolete
> >one in Extensions) and several others.
> >
> >In one version of the System (around 7.0 or 7.1) I found the table in
> >memory which was keyed by the 4-byte codes.
>
> Take a deep breath ... (you can hardcode these values in MacPerl's
> FindFolder, even if the constants are not included ... I suppose these
> should be included in the next MacPerl release).
>
>
> <URL:http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/macos8/pdf/FolderMgrRef.pdf>

Also, you can see the constants on:

    <URL:http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/macos8/Files/
    FolderManager/FolderMgrRef/FolderMgrRef.d.html>

But DO NOT USE THEM.  The HTML is broken; the special character =9F is not
rendered at all, so many of those constants are wrong.  Get the PDF version
and copy the text out, that is the safest way.

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