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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

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