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From: TMPLee@DOCKMASTER.NCSC.MIL
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: re: my another useful (PCT) trick
Message-ID: <900215062157.881390@DOCKMASTER.NCSC.MIL>
Date: 15 Feb 90 06:21:00 GMT
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I noticed one strange anomaly with my way of getting the Pc Transporter
started up without having its slot always enabled.  When you do it the
normal way, when the PCT is running you can still hit apple-ctrl-esc to
get into the control panel.  (which I need to do if I'm going to use the
PCT's 5 1/4 drive and have forgotten to slow the TWGS down to normal --
for some reason the PCT can't read it's drive if the TWGS is at warp
speed; makes no sense to me, since it CAN acces the apple peripherals,
e.g., modem, hardrive, just fine.)  With the trick of using $C02D to
enable the slot, for some reason the control panel no longer works when
the PCT is running -- the screen switches back to a blank apple screen,
waits a LONG time, and then comes up with RESTART SYSTEM in 40 col.
mode followed by a half line of garbage.

Also -- do any of you Finder experts know anythign special the finder
does to make itself reloadable on return from the PCT?  I tried
replacing the normal Quit call I use to execute AEPC.SYSTEM with one
that said to leave the caller's ID on the stack so that I could regain
control.  It didn't work:  got a couldn't allocate block memory manager
error on the return.  or was it a couldn't load tool error -- I've had
both; in any case, what should a program do so that when the program it
calls with Quit exits it regains control?  (I'm using TML pascal, so not
doing anything too fancy that I'm aware of with load modules, nor that I
have any control over.

TMPLee@dockmaster.ncsc.mil