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From: davide@cs.qmc.ac.uk (David Edmondson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: TMTasks and Procptrs??
Message-ID: <1506@sequent.cs.qmc.ac.uk>
Date: 2 Dec 89 00:47:14 GMT
Reply-To: davide@cs.qmc.ac.uk (David Edmondson)
Organization: CS Dept, Queen Mary College, University of London, UK.
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We need to restart our macs at a preset time in order to make
sure that they are running A/UX at 1am so that the software can
be automatically updated.  I have been trying to write an INIT
which installs a tmtask structure and procedure above bufptr
but although all the bits seem to be in place it just bombs at
the specified time.  To begin with I was using block move with
a procptr as the source location but someone pointed out that
procptrs pointed at jump tables so to simplify things I tried
poking in an assembled version of restart as given in IMII.
This also failed so I tried putting in a couple of zero bytes
since procptrs point to an integer followed by an executable
but still no cigar.

Could some kind soul point me in the right direction before I
eat this keyboard.

Witzend of London.
-- 
David Edmondson

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