Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!bloom-beacon!eru!kth.se!cyklop.nada.kth.se!news From: d88-jwa@byse.nada.kth.se (Jon W{tte) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer Subject: Re: DA's, copying, and MultiFinder Message-ID: Date: 22 Mar 91 12:17:48 GMT References: <1991Mar20.144345.178@otago.ac.nz> <1991Mar22.021406.13329@agate.berkeley.edu> Sender: news@nada.kth.se (Mr News) Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden Lines: 19 In-reply-to: lippin@ragu.berkeley.edu's message of 22 Mar 91 02:14:06 GMT In article <> lippin@ragu.berkeley.edu (The Apathist) writes: (MultiFinder doesn't care what you pass to SystemEdit, and 2 refers to the gray line in the edit menu, so nothing happens when you get down This is, of course, wrong :-) IM says that SystemEdit ( 0 ) is Undo, 2 is Cut, 3 is copy &c. The method of calling SystemEdit is OK, though; just pass 1 to it instead. Now, what happens when you call SystemEdit from a DA ? h+@nada.kth.se Jon W{tte -- "The IM-IV file manager chapter documents zillions of calls, all of which seem to do almost the same thing and none of which seem to do what I want them to do." -- Juri Munkki in comp.sys.mac.programmer