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Introduction to Low-Level File Management Programming Topics

Contents:

Organization of This Document

This document describes the various Foundation methods and functions for manipulating files and directories.

Organization of This Document

This document contains the following articles:

• “Portable File-System Operations” explains the general approach for composing paths to locations in the file system.

• “HFS File Types” describes the APIs that allow a Cocoa application to retrieve and create HFS type and creator codes.

• “File Manager” describes the class that enables you to perform many generic file-system operations.

• “File Handle” describes the class that provides a wrapper for accessing open files or communications channels.

• “Enumerating A Directory” describes how to retrieve the contents of a directory using an NSDirectoryEnumerator object.

• “Resolving Aliases” describes how to resolve aliases in a file path.

• “Locating Directories on the System” explains how to use both Cocoa and Carbon functions to compose paths used in file-system operations.

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