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Article #22004Re: Curiouser and curiouser...
From: Ed Tecot
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1987 00:09
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1987 00:09
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In article <1825@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> elwell@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (Clayton Elwell) writes: >Does anyone have a good explanation of why the resource manager in the >128K ROMs contains support for Suitcase (or perhaps its predecessor DA >Mob)? To be specific, why InitResources looks in the system folder >for a file of type 'INIT' and creator 'dMob', and executes the INIT >128 resource out of it? The OpenDeskAcc call also does some things >having to do with this. There is nothing in the ROM which does what you describe. I don't know what you came across, but I do have a good guess: Suitcase probably patches InitResources and OpenDeskAcc (and maybe even AddResMenu) in order to do its job. What you are seeing is not ROM code, but the patches installed by Suitcase. To make sure, check the address of the code; the ROM on the Mac+ starts at 400000 hexadecimal; if the code you see is at a lower address, it's RAM. _emt
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!nrl-cmf!ames!lll-lcc!pyramid!voder!apple!tecot From: tecot@apple.UUCP (Ed Tecot) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Curiouser and curiouser... Message-ID: <6801@apple.UUCP> Date: Sun, 22-Nov-87 19:09:44 EST Article-I.D.: apple.6801 Posted: Sun Nov 22 19:09:44 1987 Date-Received: Thu, 26-Nov-87 23:44:33 EST References: <1825@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Reply-To: tecot@apple.UUCP (Ed Tecot) Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, USA Lines: 18