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From: edmoy@violet.berkeley.edu

Date: 10 Mar 88 19:48:15 GMT

>I am looking for this, and basically do the following:

>	if ( (target = OpenResFile( targetFile )) == -1 )
>	{	CreateResFile( targetFile );
>		if ( ResError() != noErr )
>		{
>			return;
>		}
>		else if ( target = OpenResFile( targetFile ) == -1 )
>		{
>			return;
>		}
>	}

If this is exactly the code you use, then the problem is in:

		else if ( target = OpenResFile( targetFile ) == -1 )

You forgot the extra pair of parenthesis, as in

		else if ((target = OpenResFile( targetFile )) == -1 )
	
What you were doing is calling OpenResFile() and testing if it was -1.  If
it was, target was set to 1 (true) and your routine started to do its thing
on what every resource file 1 was (maybe the System file).  Although I would
have expected that OpenresFile() to return a positive number, which doesn't
match -1, so target becomes 0 and your routine returns.



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