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From: tomas@apple.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: "system" call
Message-ID: <665@apple.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 27-Apr-87 12:15:43 EDT
Article-I.D.: apple.665
Posted: Mon Apr 27 12:15:43 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 29-Apr-87 00:45:14 EDT
References: <663@van-bc.UUCP> <3042@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU>
Reply-To: tomas@apple.UUCP (Tom Taylor)
Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, USA
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Keywords: system library mac

In article <3042@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU> jww@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU (Joel West) writes:
>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.
>-- 
>	Joel West
>	{ucbvax,ihnp4}!sdcsvax!jww	(ihnp4!gould9!joel once I fix news)
>	jww@sdcsvax.ucsd.edu	if you must

This is NOT the way the MPW Shell does it.

Tom Taylor / Development Systems Group