SHULMAN@sdr.slb.COM (Jeffrey Shulman) (05/18/88)
Date: Wed 18 May 88 08:52:27-EDT
From: Jeff Shulman <SHULMAN@SDR>
Subject: Delphi Mac Digest V4 #9
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Delphi Mac Digest Tuesday, May 17, 1988 Volume 4 : Issue 9
Today's Topics:
RE: INFO-MAC Digest V6 #37
re: Opening Working Directories
re: Exciting questions on Macintosh SE !
Offscreen PixMaps & anmat.colors (2 messages)
voice recognition?
re: QuickDraw to PostScript
ddj mac column fading ... (2 messages)
For Mac II's only
RE: Smalltalk Goodies
RE: INFO-MAC Digest V6 #39
re: Problems with Printmonitor
re: TextEdit Item in a dlog
polygons, pictures & printing
re: moving marquee selection
Resource weirdness?
"smart quotes"
re: Fixing Your Own Power Supply
re: Hard disks
Re: The Scores Virus
MacHack
list mgr/modal dialog prob
Resource Files (3 messages)
re: Goin' Crazy on a Mac, or, How I Love
Re: Flyback transformer source
macs in business
Re: keeping multiple machine environment
re: MultiFinder switch bug with custom W (2 messages)
Usenet Mac Digest, (Vol4:Iss61) re: Vers
RE: INFO-MAC Digest V6 #49
re: Help with Modal dialogs
Weird problem with INITs
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From: DSACHS
Subject: RE: INFO-MAC Digest V6 #37 (Re: Msg 26365)
Date: 23-APR 11:29 Network Digests
> Mr. McQueen misses the point about public domain.
Sorry. Public domain works are completely unrestricted. If you want to
place restrictions on the use of a file you should include a copyright
notice followed by a statment as to what IS allowed. (e.g. the autors
grant permission for unrestriced non-commercial copying including
posting to bulletin boards.)
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From: DDUNHAM
Subject: re: Opening Working Directories (Re: Msg 26374)
Date: 23-APR 15:48 Network Digests
> From: darin@Apple.COM (Darin Adler)
> Subject: Re: Opening Working Directories
> Once you have opened a file, the working directory no longer needs to
be
> open. HFS extracts the volume and directory information from the
Um, if this is so, how does an application know where to save after it's
read a document into memory? My DAs were having horrible problems
(-35s) because Finder was closing the working directories the files had
been opened on; the only way I could get around this was to keep the
files open. (This also makes AppleShare compatibility slightly easier,
depending on exactly what you mean by compatibility.) Are you saying
that, instead of saving the working directory returned by Standard File,
I should have looked up that WD's vRefNum and dirID?
David Dunham "If it doesn't have Undo, it's not a Mac program."
Maitreya Design
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From: DDUNHAM
Subject: re: Exciting questions on Macintosh SE ! (Re: Msg 26375)
Date: 23-APR 15:48 Network Digests
> From: newton@mtund.ATT.COM (Newton Lee)
> Subject: Exciting questions on Macintosh SE !!!
> I want my program to reside in memory all the time
Mark the INIT resource non-purgeable and system. There's no way to
stay in the application heap across launches; your permanent code could
load a resource into the application heap and call that. If you patch
the event traps, be _sure_ to pass on to pr evious patches.
David Dunham "If voting could change the system, it would be
illegal. If
Maitreya Design not voting could change the system, it would be be
illegal."
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From: INTECO
Subject: Offscreen PixMaps & anmat.colors
Date: 25-APR 15:33 Programming Techniques
I have the following problem: I am creating offscreen PixMaps with 4 to
16 colors which I want to transfer to a window which 32 colors with a
mixture of 16 tolerant and 16 animating colors. The colors offscreen
PixMaps should be equal to the 16 animating ones. Although the program
runs well I do not get the correct colors while transfering the PixMap
with CopyBits (the ForeGround and BackGround colors are black and
white!). Any suggestion what I could do? At the present state I am
copying the animating colors from my window into the ctTable of my
PixMap which shows my colors slightly differing after the PixMaps appear
in the window? Uwe
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From: INTECO
Subject: RE: Offscreen PixMaps & anmat.colors (Re: Msg 2400)
Date: 27-APR 19:52 Programming Techniques
Obviously CopyBits bypasses the PaletteMgr. That seems to be a serious
problem (bug). -- Uwe
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From: ROWLAND
Subject: voice recognition?
Date: 27-APR 08:59 Hardware & Peripherals
Has anyone heard of a speech recognition device for the Mac (especially
for the ADB) ? There used to be (still is?) a sort of generic board that
you could buy to fit in various terminals which recognized about 100 or
so words (speaker dependent) and would put out ascii strings for each
recognized word into the keyboard stream. It seems a natural for the mac
but I haven't heard of any.
Mike
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From: DDUNHAM
Subject: re: QuickDraw to PostScript (Re: Msg 26384)
Date: 27-APR 21:55 Network Digests
> From: "Philip H. Dye" <pd1h+@andrew.cmu.edu>
> Subject: QuickDraw to PostScript
> What is the easiest way to convert a quickdraw file to postscript ?
Apple's LaserWriter driver does a good job. (Press pretzel-F to make a
file containing the PostScript output; pretzel-K if you need the
appledict header.)
David Dunham "The more laws there are, the more people are
Maitreya Design inclined to break them"
[ You don't need to hold down the command (pretzel) key. Just hold the
F or K key down immediately after you click the OK button to the print
dialog. - Jeff ]
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From: STANKRUTE
Subject: ddj mac column fading ...
Date: 28-APR 02:32 Games and Entertainment
Under a new editor-in-chief, Dr. Dobb's is cutting back on the number of
monthly columns so as to increase the article count. The Mac column's
the first to go. A couple more will see print, but no more after that.
Thanks to all of you who've sent mail-mes sages-feedback during this
brief, enjoyable gig. It's been fun being part of the DDJ scene. Thanks
to Tyler and the rest of the gang for the opportunity to talk Mac with
folks via monthly paper.
stan krute
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From: STANKRUTE
Subject: RE: ddj mac column fading ... (Re: Msg 26422)
Date: 1-MAY-19:29: Games and Entertainment
I don't know about improve, but the article momentum keeps on a while.
Thinking about MacTutor: the recent article on truly floating
palette-like tear-off menus/windows was the best piece of Mac hackin'
I've seen in print for a long time. I'd taken a few swipes at that
problem myself, and had stopped when things got convoluted. The
Melton/Ritter solutions are elegant. Not a trivial problem.
Of course, it'll be interesting to see what Apple's Mac tech support
folks come up with in their new examples-writing effort. Me, I'd like an
encyclopedic cookbook that showed 2 or 3 examples of implementing each
and every piece of the user interface docced out in Human Interface
GuidelInes: The Apple Desktop Interfac Some good folks are goin' at it
...
Stan dreamin' again? Krute
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From: JOSEF
Subject: For Mac II's only
Date: 28-APR 18:32 Mousing Around
Wanna have some fun at the Color Manager's expense? Use the Klutz DA to
change the black and white entries to some other color. Pick something
exciting, like say hot pink and chartreuse. Then start moving around
windows and opening and closing other apps. Do it under MultiFinder.
It's quite bizarre.
Joe
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From: DOCJOHNALEG
Subject: RE: Smalltalk Goodies (Re: Msg 2383)
Date: 30-APR 01:01 Tools for Developers
The 0.4 version of Smalltalk80 from Apple is solid. It is full
smalltalk 80 with its own shelletc. Smalltalk V is much more Mac like
with a much simpilar class stucture. Can't say too much, as I am under
non-disclosure but I think It is going to be a real solid alternative to
ST 80. I hear Apple is reading a ST-80 that supports MacApp objects.
Now that is exciting if it is fully integrated into a ST shell.
John
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From: DSACHS
Subject: RE: INFO-MAC Digest V6 #39 (Re: Msg 26382)
Date: 1-MAY-00:26: Network Digests
>Date: Sun, 17 Apr 88 09:32 AST
>From: Stan Armstrong <ARMSTRONG%STMARYS.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
>Subject: Fixing Your Own Power Supply
the same problem. It likely is only cold solder joints. MY dealer
(Farnsworth Computer - Aurora IL) fixed the problem for $15.00 (1/2 hour
labor, no parts). Find a friend who is handy with a soldering iron
before you do anything costly.
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From: DDUNHAM
Subject: re: Problems with Printmonitor (Re: Msg 26417)
Date: 1-MAY-02:38: Network Digests
> From: chuq@plaid.Sun.COM (Chuq Von Rospach)
> Subject: Problems with Printmonitor
Reboot without MultiFinder (hold down the pretzel key) to catch
PrintMonitor.
David Dunham "If it has syntax, it isn't user-friendly."
Maitreya Design
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From: DDUNHAM
Subject: re: TextEdit Item in a dlog (Re: Msg 26418)
Date: 1-MAY-02:38: Network Digests
> From: soe@ames.arpa (Brad Soe)
> Subject: TextEdit Item in a dlog
Uh, yes, you're way off. As per I-418, DialogSelect calls TEIdle for
you. In fact, the dialog manager does everything for you -- creating
(and disposing) the TE record. I believe GetDItem would give you its
handle, if you needed to read info from it.
David Dunham "The more laws there are, the more people are
Maitreya Design inclined to break them"
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From: METASOFTWARE
Subject: polygons, pictures & printing
Date: 1-MAY-09:50: Developers' Corner
some problems have recently surfaced using the new system (4.2) and
new laserwriter driver w/ spooler. it seems that sending pictures with
polygons OCCASSIONALLY prints the wrong segments of a random polygon.
the polygon looks right, even within the picture immediately prior to
calling DrawPicture into the printer's grafport.
at first there were duplicate last 2 points in the polygon which
made it fail on all macs. removing the duplicate causes the problem to
occur only on the mac +.
has anyone had any difficulties recently with pictures, polygons
and/or printing?
thanks. -alan
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From: DDUNHAM
Subject: re: moving marquee selection (Re: Msg 26434)
Date: 2-MAY-00:55: Network Digests
> From: "Tony S. Dahbura" <DAHBURA%SUVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
> Does anyone out there know how I can get a moving marquee selection
box
Not _everything_ is in the ROM. I think the usual method is to draw
the box in a sequence of patterns.
David Dunham "Whenever you see a sign 'No Exit,' it means
Maitreya Design there is an exit."
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From: DDUNHAM
Subject: Resource weirdness?
Date: 1-MAY-22:13: Inside Mac
I've just noticed something odd. The resource 'DITL' 55 from Red Ryder
9.4 shows a length of 302 in RezDet, but 202 in ResEdit. When I DeRez
it, it shows extra data, after the normal items. ResEdit shows only the
items, even in the hex view. I don't know what to make of this.
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From: DDUNHAM
Subject: "smart quotes"
Date: 2-MAY-21:20: Mousing Around
As the inventor (so far as I know) of "smart quotes," I'd like to try to
correct the misuse of the term which I've read several places recently.
Curved quote marks and apostrophes are just that -- the characters used
in typography. They are not smart in and of themselves. A smart quotes
feature is smart because it lets you type normally, without having to
remember the [Option] key combinations needed to get typographic quotes.
The computer sees you type a quote and ent ers a right or left quote,
depending on context.
Context is critical -- systems which rely solely on the last character
typed aren't truly smart, because they don't let you click an insertion
point in, say, the word "its" and type an apostrophe. Smart quotes,
alas, must be built in to all programs.
I like my output to look as typographic as possible, so I want all
programs to have smart quotes. If you are developing a program that
could use them, please contact me for the algorithm, so we can
standardize its behavior (and the means to override automatic curving
when you need an inch mark).
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From: MACWEEKBOS
Subject: re: Fixing Your Own Power Supply (Re: Msg 26382)
Date: 4-MAY-16:59: Network Digests
To: Stan Armstrong <ARMSTRONG%STMARYS.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Fixing Your Own Power Supply
One option I'm aware of that may be better than an Apple dealer is a
company called ComputerQuick. They are in La Mirada, CA at 213-941-7951.
They have become the wizards of power supplies in MacTutor magazine and
I think they're usually a lot cheaper than Apple dealers for repairs of
Mac Plus (512, etc.) power supplies.
Ric Ford
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From: MACWEEKBOS
Subject: re: Hard disks (Re: Msg 26454)
Date: 5-MAY-10:26: Network Digests
To: JEAN BRUNET <R31631@UQAM> Subject: Hard disks
Redux, from Microseeds Publishing, is a backup program that does what
you seem to be asking for. It's $99, and the company's address is:
Microseeds Plublishing, Inc., 4702 North Hesperides Ave., Tampa, Fla.
33614; (813) 878-2142.
Ric Ford
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From: MACWEEKBOS
Subject: Re: The Scores Virus (Re: Msg 26454)
Date: 5-MAY-10:31: Network Digests
I'd like to echo Leo Geoffrion's appreciation of the work that John
Norstad has contributed to our understanding of the Scores virus. This
is, indeed, networking at its best. Thanks John.
Ric Ford MacWEEK, Boston
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From: MACWEEKBOS
Subject: MacHack
Date: 5-MAY-11:51: Network Digests
Anyone have details on the upcoming MacHack in Ann Arbor in June??
Ric Ford
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From: JDUES
Subject: list mgr/modal dialog prob
Date: 7-MAY-16:39: Programming
A program I am writing requires use of various types of
List Manager lists (one or two-dimensional, scrolling and non-scolling)
within modal dialogs. I am having problems with updating and refreshing
the lists. For example: if the dialog box with the list is up and a
screen saver kicks such as PYRO kicks in, the list contents and framing
rect are not restored when the screen saver goes away, although the rest
of the dialog is OK. Clicking inside the list area restores it. Maybe
I'm calling LUpdate in the wrong place? Should
I handle everything having to do with the list within a ModalDialog
FilterProc routine? Inside Mac is no being too helpful. If somebody
could point me toward related literature or source code examples,
preferably in LS Pascal, I'd sure appreciate it.
Naively Yours-- John Duesenberry
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From: KWILLEY
Subject: Resource Files
Date: 7-MAY-18:43: Programming Techniques
I need to be able to open a resource file during an INIT and then leave
the file open until the next reboot. I want all of the resources to be
available at any time. Any ideas?
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From: DDUNHAM
Subject: RE: Resource Files (Re: Msg 2407)
Date: 11-MAY 02:14 Programming Techniques
Use Suitcase; customize it with ResEdit so it opens your file. (I have
several non-font nor DA resources active this way; saves on customizing
my System.)
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From: DDUNHAM
Subject: RE: Resource Files (Re: Msg 2412)
Date: 12-MAY 03:34 Programming Techniques
If you can't use Suitcase, you'll have to do what Suitcase does, which
involves opening the files and sticking them after System in the
resource file search path.
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From: DDUNHAM
Subject: re: Goin' Crazy on a Mac, or, How I Love (Re: Msg 26467)
Date: 8-MAY-22:17: Network Digests
> From: garry@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Garry Wiegand)
> Subject: Goin' Crazy on a Mac, or, How I Love MPW "GlobalData"
Become a certified developer (it's free); you can then ask questions of
Apple via email.
It's rare to have 32K bytes of data that's not at least partially an
array. And you can non-globalize your arrays very easily just by
changing the definition from
float rootBeer[1000]; to float rootBeer[];
and throwing a rootBeer = NewPtr((Size)1000 * sizeof(float)); as part
of your initialization. This is a 2-line change, and the rest of your
program will never know the difference.
David Dunham "If it doesn't have Undo, it's not a Mac program."
Maitreya Design
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From: MACWEEKBOS
Subject: Re: Flyback transformer source (Re: Msg 26466)
Date: 10-MAY 12:35 Network Digests
Re: Flyback transformer source
Try:
MCM Electronics, 858 East Congress Park Dr., Centerville, Ohio
45459-4072; (800) 543-4330, (800) 762-4315 (Ohio), (800) 858-1849
(Alaska and Hawaii), 513-434-0031, fax: 513-434-6959.
I believe they sell Mac flyback transformers.
Ric Ford
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From: JIMH
Subject: macs in business
Date: 12-MAY 00:53 Creative Pursuits
Ric and Rick ;-) I saw your latest column in macweek about business
still fighting the mac invasion so to speak. An interesting sideline to
that is the govt market. the airforce base where our company does most
of its work has gone mac crazy! seems eve ryone on base is talking
about how they are getting macs for their groups. a year or so ago if
it didnt say zenith you had to go through
such a paper hassel to get approval that most macs were purchased under
the table by contractors. At the flight dynam ics lab here at a friends
work group they were told to have zeniths and so they bought a couple of
dozen of them and piled them unopened in the corner and continued to use
the macs they had managed to get through a contractor. This kind of
waste and rebel lion seems to be getting through to washington and it
has got a lot easier to purchase non zenith equipment.
Oh one last tidbit. Zenith fever got so hot last year that someone in
our users group who is civil service wanted to buy typer writers (cheap
typewriters) and was told that he would have to buy zenith
wordprocessors!! best jim
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From: MACWEEKBOS
Subject: Re: keeping multiple machine environment (Re: Msg 26496)
Date: 13-MAY 16:21 Network Digests
Re: keeping multiple machine environments in synch
I've found the Redux backup program (Microseeds publishing, (813)
878-2142) to be helpful in keeping my home and work systems in synch. It
offers more flexible selection options than DiskFit, and I use a script
that grabs all the files modified after last midnight. Of course, this
doesn't solve all the problems you mentioned. I guess we really need
some sort of program that would look at the current directory and a
saved version of the directory from last time the program was run, and
make a smart report about the changes.
Ric Ford
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From: DDUNHAM
Subject: re: MultiFinder switch bug with custom W (Re: Msg 26495)
Date: 13-MAY 21:35 Network Digests
> From: herbw@midas.TEK.COM (Herb Weiner)
> Subject: Re: MultiFinder switch bug with custom WDEFs
> switch to the finder (for example) when a sfGetFile dialog is active
You mean switch to the Finder and delete the folder that's showing in
the SF dialog? Or rename the files it lists? You get the picture, I
think.
Standard File is in fact reentrant; Findswell 2.0 will make use of it
that way.
David Dunham "Whenever you see a sign 'No Exit,' it means
Maitreya Design there is an exit."
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From: DDUNHAM
Subject: re: MultiFinder switch bug with custom W (Re: Msg 26495)
Date: 13-MAY 21:36 Network Digests
> From: goldman@Apple.COM (Phil Goldman)
> Subject: Re: MultiFinder switch bug with custom WDEFs
> StdFile (unless the latter is a preferred form of navigation)
Have you seen Findswell? SF+Findswell _is_ a preferred form of
navigation, because you don't usually have to navigate; just select from
your favorite files. In any case, I like to keep my folders neatly
closed; opening nested folders to 2click documents would make a horrible
mess.
David Dunham "If it doesn't have Undo, it's not a Mac program."
Maitreya Design
Disclaimer: I wrote Findswell.
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From: LABELBECK
Subject: Usenet Mac Digest, (Vol4:Iss61) re: Vers
Date: 13-MAY 22:31 Network Digests
Thomas Fruin writes reguarding VersaTerm 3.2's Remote file transfer
feature.
>This is also potentially very dangerous! I've just been reading the
>specs, and it turns out _anybody_ can dial into your Mac, and download
>just about everything on your (hard) disks. VersaTerm does NOT prompt
>you for a password, and you can even use wildcards when downloading.
>Since you can type any pathname, the remote volume is up for grabs.
No, its not that easy. It is true that _anybody_ can dial into your
Mac, if:
1) Your mac is on, running VersaTerm,
2) your modem is on, connected and set for auto answer, and
3) the baud rates match between the caller and the callee...
Now, if the VersaTerm user has "Enable Remote Access" checked for that
Phone entry (on both ends) the caller MUST ALSO know the exact name of
the remotes' root directory. As the specs state, this acts as a form of
password.
The reason I elected to do it this way was two-fold.
1) It is very easy to keep people from dialing into your Mac... so if
you don't want people in it's simple to keep them out.
2) A smart host program can be used to do nice things like backing-up
selected file/folders unattended, say during the evening, automatically.
If I had a complex password scheme this would be much more difficult.
(The host still needs to know your root directory to work).
I thought a lot about this (asked others as well), and think this is a
good scheme. Personally, my Mac running VersaTerm is by default
connected to a local Unix machine and is connected to a modem ONLY when
modeming... I suspect this is pretty common.
Lonnie Abelbeck
Abelbeck Software
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From: DSACHS
Subject: RE: INFO-MAC Digest V6 #49 (Re: Msg 26506)
Date: 14-MAY 14:58 Network Digests
>Date: Wed, 11 May 88 17:11 CST
>From: <OPTON@UHVAX1>
>Subject: Double Helix II query
1) Copying all records that meet a specific criterion to another
relation can be done by using the POSTING features of DH II. Create a
posting that will create records in the target relation, and uses an
abacus (if necessary) dto select the records to be posted. Put the
necessary stuff into a selection and do a POST ALL (or post SELECTION)
2) Duplicating a relation ICON will duplicate the structure of the
relation.
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From: DDUNHAM
Subject: re: Help with Modal dialogs (Re: Msg 26506)
Date: 15-MAY 22:30 Network Digests
> From: "Tony S. Dahbura" <DAHBURA%SUVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
> Subject: Help with Modal dialogs
You're reading the wrong volume; check the List Manager in IM-4.
David Dunham "We've got the best government money can buy."
Maitreya Design
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From: PIPPIN
Subject: Weird problem with INITs
Date: 16-MAY 23:30 Developers' Corner
I'm writing an INIT and have come across a very strange bug. My INIT
runs before AppleShare and (due to the bug) AppleShare will not load.
However, if I change the name of AppleShare to something else, say
AppleSharf, it works perfectly. My INIT does not alter anything related
to memory allocation and does not leave any tasks anywhere. As far as I
can tell, it does not leave any trails. It does, however, utilize some
File Manager calls.
Any ideas as to why a trivial change in spelling will affect the
operation of AppleShare? No other INITs exhibit this problem and it
occurs when the only two
INITs are mine and AppleShare.
Thanks. Barry J. Semo
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