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From: kbad@atari.UUCP (Ken Badertscher)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: Re: Traps on Resolution Change
Keywords: traps rez change resident code
Message-ID: <2943@atari.UUCP>
Date: 16 May 91 20:01:48 GMT
References: <1991May12.024116.26326@wam.umd.edu>
Organization: Atari Corp., Sunnyvale, CA
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Desk accessories should not steal trap vectors.

This is not to say that lots of DA's (desk accessories should not steal
trap vectors) that are already out there don't take vectors, but (desk
accessories should not steal trap vectors) it really isn't a recommended
thing.

Desk accessories, as we all know, are (desk accessories should not
steal trap vectors)  accessories, side-liners, assistants, and as such
(desk accessories should not steal trap vectors) they don't warrant
the same considerations (desk accessories should not steal trap vectors)
as main-line applications.

As Julian R. (hi, Julian!) has recently pointed out (desk accessories
should not steal trap vectors), things that take vectors really belong
in the AUTO folder.  TSRs should be the ones (desk accessories should
not steal trap vectors) setting up resources like this, and they should
use the Cookie Jar to communicate with other programs.

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