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From: jason@madnix.UUCP (Jason Blochowiak)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Loading DAs
Message-ID: <1010@madnix.UUCP>
Date: 1 Jan 90 11:34:53 GMT
References: <8912310807.AA27876@apple.com>
Reply-To: jason@madnix.UUCP (Jason Blochowiak)
Organization: ARP Software, Madison, WI
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In article <8912310807.AA27876@apple.com> MAR21AA@TECHNION.BITNET
(Uri Srebro) writes:
>Does anybody know of a utilitie/desk accsesory that will load DAs under system
>5.0 ? Both carpet bag and Instal DA don't work properly with the new system.

	Well, there's my APW shell utility "DALoad" that's worked for quite a
while now, but other than that... A friend was working on a DA loader NDA
(well, actually it does something else, but that's a secret ;), and it loads
CDAs just fine, but it has problems loading NDAs. According to him, the
InstallNDA() (part of Apple's toolbox) is buggy as of System 5.0. He poked
through the code, and told me that if the system busy flag is non-zero, the
Desk Mgr leaves the handle locked, and can't properly prepend the stuff that
it needs (to keep track of the NDA internally). I tend to believe him, because
1) The code (which I've seen) is basically the same as DALoad's, but it
operates under a different environment, 2) It works under earlier versions of
the system disk (and he's not doing anything nasty/illegal), and 3) Like I
said, it works with CDAs, and the code is quite similar. Besides, he's not an
excuse-oriented guy...

p.s. Matt: He said that he was going to talk to his development group's Apple
rep, so please don't flame me... :)

>        Nathan Srebro
>        Haifa, Israel


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