Re: Reading an AliasHandle from a Finder alias file

2009-05-26 Thread Greg Guerin
Erg Consultant wrote: FSFollowFinderAlias kind of does what I want, but not really. Then please explain what you really want to do, and why FSFollowFinderAlias doesn't meet those needs. Be specific. If I read the entire data fork of a Finder alias will the read data be a valid AliasRe

Re: Reading an AliasHandle from a Finder alias file

2009-05-26 Thread Sean McBride
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 rout

Reading an AliasHandle from a Finder alias file

2009-05-26 Thread Erg Consultant
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,