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From: jww@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU (Joel West)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: "system" call
Message-ID: <3042@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU>
Date: Sun, 26-Apr-87 11:33:26 EDT
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Posted: Sun Apr 26 11:33:26 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 26-Apr-87 23:35:51 EDT
References: <663@van-bc.UUCP>
Organization: Western Software Technology, Vista, CA
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Keywords: system library mac

In article <663@van-bc.UUCP>, sl@van-bc.UUCP (Stuart Lynne) writes:
> I need a call similiar to the unix "system" to put into a uucp 
> program to do the uuxqt part.

the way to do this is to:
	1. Find out who's the current 'Finder' and save the name
	2. Make your program the current finder.
	3. _Chain to the program.
	4. Wait to come back.

I've not done it myself, so I don't know whether you want _Launch
or _Chain (i.e., when you come back, your heap might not be
re-initialized if you try _Chain, but I'm not sure).

This is what the MPW shell does when you run an application, and
it looked like what the Aztec shell does, too.
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	Joel West
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