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From: mystone@mondo.engin.umich.edu (Dean Yu)
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Subject: Re: MultiFinder Programmer's Guide question 3
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Date: 10 Jan 91 20:37:02 GMT
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In article <3723@uakari.primate.wisc.edu> bin@primate.wisc.edu (Brain in Neutral) writes:
>Programmer's Guide to MultiFinder p 3-14 discusses how to tell
>whether WaitNextEvent() is implemented.  There is one of those
>4-diamond Note things that says: "WaitNextEvent does not conflict
>with any OS trap, so the above test is valid on 64K ROMs."
>
>However, the code in question contains the comment "WaitNextEvent
>and HFSDispatch both have the same trap number ($60)..."
>

  No problem here.  _WaitNextEvent is a toolbox trap and _HFSDispatch is an
OS trap.  The 64K ROMs didn't have HFS implemented in them, so there's no
conflict.

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