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From: jackiw@cs.swarthmore.edu (Nick Jackiw)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Background MAGIC (and I don't mean multifinder!!)
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Date: 10 Aug 90 14:03:52 GMT
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Reply-To: jackiw@cs.swarthmore.edu (Nick Jackiw)
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moyman@ecn.purdue.edu (James M Moya) writes:
> How is it that cdev/INIT's like Moire and SuperClock (and many others) can 
> run in the background whether multifinder is running or not!!  I have been 
> checking every mac bnook I know of to learn of this black magic...NOTHING.
> 
> Exactly what is it they are doing?? Or does anybody *really* know...
> 
> I have an "appletalk" listener I am writing (cdev/INIT) that I want to come
> forward with a dialog when it recieves a particular packet...This should
> work whether Multi is running or not...I haven't been able to find 
> *anything* in IM or any other book for that matter...I am frazzled at
> this point...Anybody with some insight to help a man on the brink...
> 
> 
> 
> Mike Moya
> Systems Programmer
> Engineering Computer Network
> Purdue University


-- 
-----Nicholas Jackiw [jackiw@cs.swarthmore.edu|jackiw@swarthmr.bitnet]-----
"Here is how I built this artificial mine. I snatched a female louse from the
hair of humanity. I was seen to lie with her on three successive nights, and
then I flung her into the pit."       _Maldoror_, Canto II