At 6:47 PM -0500 2/1/03, Dan Mills wrote:
My next step will be to make temporary rtf files at run time.
Sounds reasonable, but there's a caveat. You don't want to allow a "race condition" between the writing and reading processes; if the reader outruns the writer, it'll see a premature EOF.
There are a couple of approaches to this. You can "roll your own" by creating and then renaming (i.e., moving to a new name on the same file system) the file. I have an article on this approach coming out in MacTech. Alternatively, you can use the OSX Foundation facility for creating files in an atomic manner (I think they may be using the first technique, but they don't say and it doesn't really matter...). I think you might want to look at these instance methods: writeToFile:atomically writeToURL:atomically under the Foundation's NSArray and NSDictionary classes. -r -- email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; phone: +1 650-873-7841 http://www.cfcl.com/rdm - my home page, resume, etc. http://www.cfcl.com/Meta - The FreeBSD Browser, Meta Project, etc. http://www.ptf.com/dossier - Prime Time Freeware's DOSSIER series http://www.ptf.com/tdc - Prime Time Freeware's Darwin Collection
