Re: How to recover from a Mac crash (magic number)

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From: Russell Donnan
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1990 21:33

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In article <59@nrl-cmf.UUCP> phillips@cmsun.UUCP (Lee Phillips) writes:
>[...]
>>models' ROMs is not the same.  (I KNOW it is different on the Plus.)
>>The results could be disastrous on other models.
>
>On the Plus type G 4of6d8.

That's not the point!!!!  What the previous poster (name unfortunately lost)
was trying to point out is that digging out the specific place in the ROMs
for all of the different MACs and ROM versions is pointless, frustrating,
and potentially dangerous.  If the cirumstances permit you to run the
finder, this will work on every Macintosh:

	SM 0 A9F4
	G 0

This uses the jump table and allows the ExitToShell routine to be relocated,
ala Mac ROM style!

Cheers!
-Russ
-- 
Russ Donnan  (415) 623-2121
Amdahl Corporation, Key Computer Laboratories, Fremont, CA, USA
russ@key.amdahl.com, ...!{pacbell,sgi,amdahl}!key!russ
-To capture the essence of an opinion takes but one lawyer.

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From: russ@key.COM (Russell Donnan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: How to recover from a Mac crash (magic number)
Summary: That's not the point!
Message-ID: <1366@key.COM>
Date: 10 Jan 90 21:33:29 GMT
References: <1990Jan9.021328.18712@lsuc.on.ca> <50599@bbn.COM> <59@nrl-cmf.UUCP>
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