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Inside Macintosh: Interapplication Communication /

Chapter 2 - Edition Manager / Subscribing to Non-Edition Files

Reading From and Writing to Files

The I/O procedure is a routine that actually reads and writes the data. It too has an interface of a selector and a parameter block.

To override the standard reading and writing functions, create an I/O function. Note that you also need to provide your own opener function to call your I/O function. See "Calling an Edition Opener" on page 2-64.

FUNCTION MyIO (selector: FormatIOVerb; 
               VAR PB: FormatIOParamBlock): OSErr;