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From: keith@Apple.COM (Keith Rollin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Can INITs be aliased? (Was: Re: LDEF)
Message-ID: <53967@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 13 Jun 91 21:14:21 GMT
References: <1991May31.172109.11246@athena.cs.uga.edu> <1991Jun12.163036.562@dhw68k.cts.com> <1991Jun12.222011.5794@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
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In article <1991Jun12.222011.5794@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> resnick@cogsci.uiuc.edu (Pete Resnick) writes:
>emmayche@dhw68k.cts.com (Mark Hartman) writes:
>
>>In article <1991May31.172109.11246@athena.cs.uga.edu> kinsey@athena.cs.uga.edu (Kevin Kinsey) writes:
>>>BTW, does anyone know if it's possible to alias an INIT under 7.0?
>
>>No, it's not - at least not for startup purposes.  The Alias Manager doesn't
>>load until well after all the INITs have been loaded.
>
>Is this documented anywhere? What things in System 7 are available at
>INIT time and what is not?

No, it's not documented, because it's not true. The Alias Manager _is_
available at INIT time. I believe that the only thing that isn't
available is the Process Manager, though this may have changed since
the last time I checked (somewhere around 7.0b2).

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