spector@acf3.NYU.EDU (David HM Spector) (10/15/87)
As I recall Macintosh INIT resources are supposed to be just code
ending in an RTS, right? I am writing a (very) small init in MPW Pascal
which seems to work fine on a Macintosh Plus, but causes my MacintoshII
to quickly visit Macsbug with an address error. In looking at the
code generated by MPW, I notice that the code gets bracketed by a link/unlink
pair, and does indeed end in an RTS. Using dumpcode in MPW to look at
lots of other INITs, from Apple and public domain sources, I notice that
they have no link/unlinks and some seem to have a header containing the
word "INIT"... have I been up too long,..am I missing something? too much
coffee, or what? :-)
Does anyone have the source to a small Pascal init they'd care to share?
Please respond via mail, I'll summarize..
Thanks,
David
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From: russell@acf3.NYU.EDU (Bill Russell)
Date: 16-Oct-87 03:03 EDT
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"Parity is for farmers." -- S. Cray
(But I think he's changed his mind since this was originally uttered [196x].)
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From: dube@acf3.NYU.EDU
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Barron's Financial Weekly has a listing of credit card fees and rates,
including a couple of no-annual-fee cards, in each issue. It
appears on the next to last page (or thereabouts).
That's where I found out about Mastercard from Dauphin Deposit Bank
in St Louis (?), which I've now been using for several months.
I have had no problem, and no annual fee either.
Don't know if you'll need a cosigner, though.
Good Luck, Ira Kaplan kaplani@csd2.nyu.edu
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I just looked in this week's Barron's, and it didn't have the
credit card listings, so I guess it's not in each issue.
Sorry ... look through some of the more recent issues, or just try
to get in touch with
Dauphin Deposit Bank & Trust Company
PO Box 4385 Harrisburg PA 17111
(not St Louis!)
which charges me no annual fee.
Disclaimer: I could be wrong.
Disclosure: My only connection to this Bank is my plastic, and I
anticipate no gain from this posting.
Ira Kaplan kaplani@csd2.nyu.edu
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Thank god for those rugged titanium bodies...
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Thats a lowercase L in cmcl2 above... ^^^^^spector@acf3.NYU.EDU (David HM Spector) (10/17/87)
Well, I found the answer to my INIT question after perusing my collection of
TechNotes.
All of the info on INITs, FKEYs, et al can be found in TechNote #110
entitled: "MPW: Writing Standalone Code in MPW Pascal"
And for those wanting to see an INIT in person, excerpted below is
the INIT example from the TechNote:
Into a file called "Init.p" place:
UNIT MyInit; {standalone code is written as a UNIT}
INTERFACE
USES
{$Load PasDump.dump}
Memtypes, QuickDraw, OSIntf, ToolIntf;
{NOTE: We cannot use global variable, since we are writing standalone code}
PROCEDURE BeepTwice;
IMPLEMENTATION
PROCEDURE BeepTwice;
VAR finalTicks : LongInt;
Begin {BeepTwice}
SysBeep(1);
Delay(120, finalTicks); {Delay two seconds}
SysBeep(1);
End; {BeepTwice}
End. {UNIT}
Compile this with "Pascal Init.p", which will result in a file Init.p.o.
Next, Link the Init with:
link -rt INIT=0 -m BEEPTWICE -o MyInit Init.p.o "{Libraries}"interface.o
This will give you an INIT in the file "MyInit" which will run when put into
the System Folder and you Macintosh is rebooted.
TechNote #110 also covers FKEYs and WDEFs and provides a number of caveats
on what NOT to do when writing such things. I believe that this TechNote is
available from Sumex-Aim and I _know_ its available from (ick) APDA.
Dave Spector
David HM Spector New York University
Senior Systems Programmer Graduate School of Business
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