RE: file's locator?

From: Wijck, Bart van <"Wijck,>
Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2002 18:01:17 +0200

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Hi Fyodor,

Should a file know it's location? The location does not seem to me to be a
'direct' attribute of a file object, although I can imagine circumstances
where it would be nice to interrogate an object about its context.

BlackBox in any case says you have to take a directory object, and from that
derive the locator object. For example

        floc := Files.dir.This(path); (* factory method *)
        fh := Files.dir.Old(floc,filename,FALSE);
        IF fh = NIL THEN
          StdLog.String(filename); StdLog.String(' COULD NOT BE OPENED');
StdLog.Ln;
        ELSE
                fr := fh.NewReader(NIL); etc.
        END;

Regards,

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-----Original Message-----
From: ftkachov{([at]})nowhere.xy
Sent: Monday, August 05, 2002 3:53 PM
To: blackbox{([at]})nowhere.xy
Cc: ftkachov{([at]})nowhere.xy
Subject: file's locator?


Hi!

Perhaps I am missing something:

is there a way to obtain from a f:Files.File its locator?

A file ought to carry information about its location?

Thanks,
Fyodor Tkachov
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