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From: u545731798ea@deneb.ucdavis.edu (Greg DeMichillie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Internal Hard Disk Indicator?
Message-ID: <3518@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu>
Date: 18 Jan 89 19:07:55 GMT
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In article <3524@uoregon.uoregon.edu> jgc@drizzle.UUCP (James Gerald Campbell) writes:
>that I have no way to determine when the disk is actually getting accessed.
>Is there some init available that will place some indicator on the menu
>bar mimicing a disk LED?  In medival times, I wrote a TSR for an IBM that
>did this, and I think I have seen something similar for MacServer on a
>network.  If I do need to write one, can anyone point me at whats needed
>to 'legally' write things asynchronously in the menu bar?
>
>jc@drizzle.cs.uoregon.edu

I can't give you specifics on how to program this, but I know it can be
done.  Both TOPS and AppleShare use a special flashing marker in the
menu bar to indicate the systems is accessing a remote volume.  TOPS just
flashes a pixel while AppleShare flashes a two-headed arrow.

Sorry I couldn't be more specific...             

 
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Greg DeMichillie   
Apple Student Rep - UC Davis  
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