Re: Get login name and/or path to home directory of current user?

Don Bruder <dakidd@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

# > OSErr FSMakeFSRefUnicode (
# >    const FSRef * parentRef,
# >    UniCharCount nameLength,
# >    const UniChar * name,
# >    TextEncoding textEncodingHint,
# >    FSRef * newRef
# > );
# > 
# > 
# > Only 1 line to debug and only one error code to check.
# 
# Doesn't that shove me (kicking and screaming every inch of the way...) 
# into fiddling with unicode, which in turn forces me (kicking harder, and

# screaming louder) to deal with the god-awful abortion of CFString?

Yeah, well, that's because you're using the simpler interface
instead of just constructing the UTF-8 string with *sprintf and
doing an open on that.

# (Call me a throwback, or whatever, but I *HATE* the hassle of trying to 
# deal with CFString stuff - particularly since I have almost zero 
# expectation that this code will ever want to run on a machine that 
# speaks anything other than plain old ASCII English)

If it's any comfort, the kernel only sees a byte string with a zero
byte terminator and '/' as a directory separator. Finder interprets
that as UTF-8, and the UTF-8 of ASCII is ASCII. So underneath of all
this, it's doing what you want.

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