The AIFFILEGGET intrinsic apparently has a slight flaw in it...

Example:

   GETPRIVMODE;
   AIFFILEGGET(overall_status,
               item_num_array,
               item_array,
               item_status_array,,
               file_name);

I pass it a file name with item 5015 which returns a boolean indicating
which domain the file is in (perm or temp).

Well, the oxymoron here is that if the name of the file passed
in "file_name" is a TEMP file then the intrinsic returns an overall_status
error code of -0043 (ivalid file name).

So when I pass a file name of a file that resides in the PERM directory the
intrinsic works fine and gives me all the info I want. In this case item
5015 would appear to be pretty useless as I already *know* the file is a
PERM file(!)

FYI to one and all....


TIA,
Brian Donaldson.

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