Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!aplcen!haven!umd5!zben From: zben@umd5.umd.edu (Ben Cranston) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer Subject: Re: Is multifinder or finder running?? Summary: Undocumented lowcore 282 Message-ID: <5897@umd5.umd.edu> Date: 8 Jan 90 20:27:29 GMT References: <51508@XAIT.Xerox.COM> Reply-To: zben@umd5.umd.edu (Ben Cranston) Organization: University of Maryland, College Park Lines: 19 In article <51508@XAIT.Xerox.COM> dee@XAIT.Xerox.COM (Donald Eastlake) writes: > To get back to the original question, almost everyone (including > myself) has suggested relatively complex methods (digging around in > the apple menu) or multi step methods (first, is system 7 running, > if not then test...); however, the more I think about it the more > it seems like just testing for _OSDispatch should do it. That > certainly works for systems pre-7 and _OSDispatch is hardly likely > to go away in system 7. Testing for the existance of a trap is > even a recommended technique (in general) by Apple. Anyone see a > problem with this? Anyone see a problem with just testing the long at $282 for being negative? -- Sig DS.L ('ZBen') ; Ben Cranston * Network Infrastructures Group, Computer Science Center * University of Maryland at College Park * of Ulm