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From: ebth@rhi.hi.is (Eggert Bjarni Thorlacius)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: When is the boot process over?
Message-ID: <2799@krafla.rhi.hi.is>
Date: 19 Feb 91 14:57:32 GMT
Organization: University of Iceland
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Hello everybody.

I am writing an INIT that is supposed to be active only during the startup
process.  Is there any trap(toolbox preferably) that is called for the first
time *soon* after startup?  I have tried InitWindows, InitMenus etc. but a
lot of INITs call these, so they won't do.  I also patched InsertMenu but,
for some wierd reason, that didn't work on a MacIIfx (read: probably only works
on a Plus).

Also, does anyone have a good method to head-patch from Pascal?  Is it just

procedure TheOriginalTrap(parameters:BlahBlahBlah;
			originalAdrr:LongInt)
inline
	POP A0
	UNLK (A6)
	JMP A0;
(and if so, how do you say that in hex?), or is there something more to it?

Thanks in advance
Eggert Thorlacius
Unversity of Iceland.

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