Path From Fsspec Pas.Txt

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I spent the long weekend cursing at the AppleEventManager trying to get the finder to open a control panel. Anyway, one of the things I discoverd was that the alias manager will give you a path name if you ask for it. Since my program needed to display the path name, I wrote a function that will return a full path name in a handle (not in a str255 so you it won't crash with long path names) when you give it a fsspec. I also figured out how to get the finder to open a control panel. You need to send an open selection event. I finally found an example that worked and ported it to pascal. If you would like to see that code I can post it here also. Its a direct copy of C.K Han's C code that is on the developers CD. Here is the code: