File IO has a built in function for this. Here's how to use it.
pDelim = the last char of the moviePath
OSPath = getOSDirectory()
where = offset(pDelim, OSPath)
HDName = char 1 to where of OSPath
And, no, the hard disk is not always C on PC's.
Irv
At 2:48 PM -0400 4/24/01, The Team wrote:
>I have written a little front end program that will run off of a CD-ROM
>and I need to store a small text file on the hard drive of both Mac &
>Windows machines. I am using File I/O and everything works to this
>point. It looks like I should use the searchPath to set up an absolute
>path but every Mac hard drive is a different name. and is it just
>c:\programs for Windows?
>
>Thanks for any assistance in advance. I think I have tried about
>everything but I can't make it work.
>
>
>Again thanks
>
>
>David Rosenblatt
>(7270 298-0079
>
>
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