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From: sl@van-bc.UUCP (Stuart Lynne)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: UUPC (Desperately Seeking Binaries)
Message-ID: <1268@van-bc.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 25-Aug-87 17:19:53 EDT
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Posted: Tue Aug 25 17:19:53 1987
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Summary: Changing Aztec shell to "APPL" won't work.

In article <3747@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu>, news@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu (Usenet netnews) writes:

> >you wouldn't be able to run them without the Aztec Shell, and you don't get
 
> Actually, if you just change the file type to APPL it should run without
> the shell.

No, this won't work! These programs are setup to run under the Aztec shell
which sets up a very specific environment for them, including a special
console driver to emulate (ugh) a standard terminal. It also accepts command
line parameters and passes them to the program in argv. Both of these
features are used.

To port uupc to the Mac Finder environment using Aztec, it must be compiled
and linked as a "mixroot" program, that is one that uses the screen console,
but can be launched by the finder. This means we don't get command line
parameters, so a small amount of code must be written to query the user for
instructions.

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