Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!apple!fox!portal!cup.portal.com!ts From: ts@cup.portal.com (Tim W Smith) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer Subject: Re: Tail patches Message-ID: <24175@cup.portal.com> Date: 18 Nov 89 08:05:32 GMT References: <1459@sequent.cs.qmc.ac.uk> <27484@dhw68k.cts.com> Organization: The Portal System (TM) Lines: 9 Suppose you have a NuBus SCSI card, and wish it to work with the SCSI Manager. How would you do this without tail patching _SCSIDispatch? ( I am assuming that a patch that never calls the original trap can be considered an extreme case of tail patching, for the sake of terminology ). What is a developer to do in a case like this? Tim Smith