rs4u#@ANDREW.CMU.EDU (Richard Siegel) (05/11/87)
In Lightspeed Pascal, there are two resources that tell which
areas of low memory are not shared between Lightspeed Pascal and
the current project; these locations are swapped back and forth
between LSP and your project whenever LSP does a context switch.
Resource QPRF 2 gives these locations if you
'are using the old 64K ROMs, and QPRF 3 gives the locations
if you're using the newer ROMs.
You can modify these resources, in order to save additional
low-memory globals. In my case, I had a program that
called SetResLoad(FALSE) before entering a loop, and
called SetResLoad(TRUE) after exiting. Problem was, I had
a minor bug inside the loop, and when my program failed,
LSP reported the error and promptly crashed; ResLoad was
false, so LSP couldn't get the resources it needed to properly
report the error and put the thumb at the bad line.
I fixed this problem by creating a ResEdit template to edit the
QPRF resources, and adding the address of ResLoad ($A5E) to the list.
Now things work nicely.
Anyway, since the patch is so small, here's the BinHex of it:
(This file must be converted with BinHex 4.0)
:%e&38NBRFb"KEQ3J9'9YF'aKG'8!2j!)!*!)!JNBC`#3"!%!N!-"XJ#3!l)!N!0
A!!#H!0S!X!%J"!C$B@jMC@`!N!@)!!i!Q!$&L!K6 v&38NBRFb"KEQ3J9'9YF'a
KG'8#!*!$2j!)!!!rN!J!N"LFbhNM!*!'!JN!!"d!$J"r!-@!!*!%@J!"!*!&3J"
`!&)!ZJ3#6dX!N!81!"!!2J#kL$TCEh8JC'mJEQpd)'KKGQ8JG'KP)'&MBf9cFb"
`FQPfD@aPCf9c)(4[)'p`C@iJG'KKG#"QEfaNCA)Z!*!$(3$#!3N!dJ&&!!!"!!!
"!*!$#J#3"M`"%!!)!6!!"!)J!!)#UJ!%!c`!"!3!"!!)!!!S#$3",!R@!!3*fJ#
+#Pi!!JTX!!`+K!"i$!!)!*!)1!%3!!J"-!!%!L!!!J+U!!3$2!!%"!!%!!J!!#J
)0!%X#GB!"!RD!)S+AJ!##Q`!$!U%!(J!N!Fb"5U3"8a69%)(3@4NFQ9cFdKA8N3
03RPdCA-JG'mJFf&fC84A8N3&+T!&6&0843!!!3#3!`'b!*!$XJ#3!eF!!6km!MB
!N!-F!&)!!9&38NB!!3!59%e36!#3!bS!!rrr"!#3"!%qc!!#rrm%!!"!!!%qb(8
D!*!&I!!"2M!%89"54Kr*!:
(You may have to take out the blank lines)
The TMPL resource should be pasted into ResEdit before you try
to edit the QPRF resources; the QPRF resources
are the ons I've patched to save ResLoad; they can be pasted intoh
Lightspeed Pascal.
If you want to modify the QPRF resources further, read chapter 14 of
the user's guide for LSP.
As always, mess around with a COPY of Lightspeed Pascal, and use LSP
for a bit to be sure that you didn't mess anything up.
--Rich
Richard M. Siegel
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Disclaimer? I don't even KNOW 'er!abbott@dean.Berkeley.EDU (+Mark Abbott) (05/11/87)
I'm looking for a way to run mail merge on our Mac here in our office. Does anyone have any recommendations or warnings? I'm interested in both independent programs designed to work with MacWrite (or any other WP, for that matter) or existing mail merge facilities in word processing packages. Please respond by e-mail and I'll summarize. Mark Abbott abbott@dean.BERKELEY.EDU (arpa) ucbvax!dean!abbott (uucp)