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From: tim@hoptoad.uucp (Tim Maroney)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Running MPW tools without MPW [was Re: awk]
Message-ID: <6434@hoptoad.uucp>
Date: 2 Feb 89 18:32:36 GMT
References: <7094@spool.cs.wisc.edu> <3625@geaclib.UUCP>
Reply-To: tim@hoptoad.UUCP (Tim Maroney)
Organization: Eclectic Software, San Francisco
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In article <3625@geaclib.UUCP> rae@geaclib.UUCP (Reid Ellis) writes:
>Just as a general point, and as something Mike might want to try, it
>should be noted that MPW tools *can* be run as standalone applications.  Of
>course, you cannot supply command-line arguments, but that can't be helped.
>Simply changing the type of the file from "MPST" to "APPL" [and the creator
>from "MPS " to "????" or something, unless you want to conflict with MPW
>itself] will allow you to run the program.

I believe your information is out of date.  This was true with the
original MPW, but I noticed that all references to writing a tool that
could be run as an application vanished with 2.0.  I just tried eight
or so of my MPW 2.0.2 tools and none worked standalone under
Multifinder.  Make crashed, while the rest returned immediately to the
Finder.  I didn't bother changing the types, just used the old
option-command-double-click "launch any file" hack.

Just as well -- the way they worked in 1.0 was extremely ugly...
-- 
Tim Maroney, Consultant, Eclectic Software, sun!hoptoad!tim
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