On 5/26/09 2:13 PM, Erg Consultant said:

>Is there a way to read AliasHandle data from an OS X Finder alias file -
>sort of like the way one could create an AliasHandle in memory in the
>old days by reading a alias resource from OS 9 alias files?
>
>The Alias Manager APIs only seem to provide routines for determining if
>a file is an alias, or for resolving it - but not for creating an
>AliasHandle from the contents of an alias file directly.
>
>FSFollowFinderAlias kind of does what I want, but not really. If I read
>the entire data fork of a Finder alias will the read data be a valid
>AliasRecord or do I need to do some further manipulation on the read data?

You should ask on the Carbon list.

In any case, maybe NDAlias does want you need:
<http://homepage.mac.com/nathan_day/pages/source.xml>

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