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From: mystone@mondo.engin.umich.edu (Dean Yu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Hack to stop AppleShare INIT from clearing the screen?
Message-ID: <1990Jan19.213825.20389@caen.engin.umich.edu>
Date: 19 Jan 90 21:38:25 GMT
References: <1990Jan19.062216.7782@smsc.sony.com> <1465@gvgpvd.GVG.TEK.COM>
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In article <1465@gvgpvd.GVG.TEK.COM> andyp@gvgpvd.GVG.TEK.COM (Andy Peterman) writes:
>In article <1990Jan19.062216.7782@smsc.sony.com> dce@smsc.Sony.COM (David Elliott) writes:
>>Does anyone have a binary patch that will stop the AppleShare
>>INIT from clearing the screen?  Why does it have to do this
>>anyway?
>>
>>Alternatively, how early can AppleShare run in the INIT sequence?
>
>I doubt if you could patch it to eliminate the screen clearing.  The
>screen is cleared when they initialize the Window Manager in their code.
>This is done because the INIT may bring up a dialog requesting the
>password.  This is strictly against MacDTS guidelines, but they do it
>anyway!
>

  Actually, Darin Adler had written an INIT called Persistence at MacHack
this past summer which keeps the icons around.  It didn't catch all the
icons, nor did it catch color icons, but it did work for the most part.
  If anyone wants to write a better version (sorry Darin) I believe the
technique he used was to punch holes in the desktop region so when the screen
gets cleared, bits in those holes get left behind.

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