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From: goldfarb@farbmac.UUCP (Benjamin I. Goldfarb)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux,comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: A/UX & the Device Manager
Message-ID: <185@farbmac.UUCP>
Date: 26 May 89 13:11:10 GMT
References: <31442@apple.Apple.COM> <1856@hub.ucsb.edu>
Organization: Longwood FL
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In article <1856@hub.ucsb.edu>, lemke@banana.ucsb.edu (Steve C. Lemke) writes:
> What exactly is involved in getting DAs to work under A/UX?  I booted my Mac
> OS drive, ran Font/DA Mover (System 6.0.3), and moved a few DAs into the
> System file on the SASH partition.  The DAs I tried were Message (the cute
> scrolling message DA) and McSink (text editor DA).  Neither one even shows
> up when I boot A/UX and am running Term...  (This is with A/UX 1.1)  Any ideas?
The System that runs when you invoke the toolbox environment under A/UX is
NOT the System in the SASH partition.  The 'real' MacOS System used under
A/UX is in /usr/lib/mac.

Elsewhere, I have posted a request for information about possible perils
of moving 'just any' System file in there with hfx.  I have actually done
so, adding whatever DA's I felt like, with some success.  Some DA's won't
work at all (e.g., SCSI Mount); others work fine.  CDEVs seem to be picked
up ok when they are moved to /usr/lib/mac (Kolor works ok).  But I've
had problems here and there when I use a reconfigured System.  (I'm running
6.0.3 and A/UX 1.1).  Does anyone know whether the distributed 
/usr/lib/mac/System is different from a MacOS  System?


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