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Chapter 2 - Edition Manager / Edition Manager Reference

Edition Manager Routines / Reading in Edition Data

OpenEdition

To initiate the reading of data from an edition (for a subscriber), use the OpenEdition function.

FUNCTION OpenEdition (subscriberSectionH: SectionHandle; 
                      VAR refNum: EditionRefNum): OSErr;

subscriberSectionH

A handle to the section record for a given section.

refNum

The OpenEdition function returns the reference number for the edition in this parameter.

DESCRIPTION

The OpenEdition function opens an edition for reading and returns a reference number that your application can use to refer to this edition in other Edition Manager routines. Multiple subscribers can each call the OpenEdition function simultaneously (each call returns a different reference number) and read data from a single edition. If a publisher (located on a different machine) is writing to an edition when you use the OpenEdition function, you receive an flLckedErr result code.

RESULT CODES

noErr	0	No error
fnfErr	-43	File not found
flLckedErr	-45	Publisher writing to an edition
permErr	-54	Not a subscriber
editionMgrInitErr	-450	Manager not initialized

SEE ALSO

For an example of the use of OpenEdition, see Listing 2-7 on page 2-42.