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Subject: Hlep with QuitGS Needed
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Date: 28 Feb 90 17:32:00 GMT
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One more step in a continuing saga ...

I'm trying to write an application that does some processing on the GS,
creates a couple of files, starts up my PC Transporter, and then resumes
when the PCT is done.  Except for finding some magic code that will run
on the PCT and cause it to automatically exit (unless AE comes through
with an answer I guess I'll have to settle for entering the manual key
sequence), I thought it was going to be pretty straightforward -- just
do a QuitGS that called for AEPC.SYSTEM to be run next.

When I tried it with a very short program to make sure I had the calling
sequence right, it seemed to work.  When I put that code in my real
application it didn't -- on return from the PCT it displayed the One
Moment Please ...  message and then gave me a system error $0003.

I'm writing in TML Pascal II, on system disk 5.0.2 (maybe its only 5.0).

I've tried it using both $8000 (reload application) or $0 for the quit
flags (also, with parameter count 1 or 2.)  I also tried it including a
shutDownTools call just before the QuitGS call.  (different errors in
all these different cases.)

It obviously can be done, since presumably that is how the Finder starts
up the AEPC.SYSTEM program, and the return is gracefully back to the
finder (not to a reboot).

So, what do I need to do before the QuitGS call so that it works?

(I don't need to make the application restartable, which I suspect I
can't; reloadable is enough:  I can tell form what files I've created
whether I'm starting fresh or restarting after having invoked the PCT.)

(In case its relevant, note that AEPC.SYSTEM is P8 application, so P8
has to be loaded; but, as I said, it works fine form teh Finder.)

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