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From: nerm@Apple.COM (Dean Yu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Weird Bug in System 7.0b4
Keywords: System 7.0b4 communications modem programs bug weird
Message-ID: <49982@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 7 Mar 91 19:41:09 GMT
References: <1991Mar7.043930.25863@agate.berkeley.edu> <1991Mar7.105711.15310@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA
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In article <1991Mar7.105711.15310@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE> breidenb@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Oliver Breidenbach) writes:
>BTW, does anybody know why they removed that "Brightness" thing that worked
>on my fx (and came with 7.0b1) in 7.0b4? (the provided one only works on
>portable). Fortunately I kept a copy of it. 

  Actually, that feature wasn't supposed to be there and was accidentally
rolled in.

>If someone at apple comes to read this: what is the OINK mode in ResEdit 2.1
>and how does it get invoked? I just saw the appropriate icons and ALRTs, but
>couldn't hack the mode.
>

  Oink mode, formerly known as the flipping pig mode, is a debugging mode.
It does something similar to a heap scramble whenever ResEdit opens a resource.
As for how to invoke it...  Well, I think I'll leave that as an exercise to
the reader...

  -- Dean Yu
     Bluer Meanie, Negative Ethnic Role Model, etc.
     Apple Computer, Inc.
     My opinions and so on and so forth...