[haiku-development] Re: Using the Flatten() function

On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 2:07 AM, Axel Dörfler <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> "Yashasvi A.C." <yashasviac@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > file = BFile("..\", "..\MessageStore\", B_READ_WRITE);
>
> Flattening writes into the BDataIO (it's a stream), it doesn't generate
> new files in a folder. You need to open the files you want to flatten
> the BMessage into directly.
>
> Bye,
>    Axel.
>
>
>
So, you mean I open a file in a read-write format and then use the flatten
function. How does the flatten() know which file it needs to stream the data
to?

Yash

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