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From: dlyons@Apple.COM (David A. Lyons)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Hlep with QuitGS Needed
Message-ID: <39114@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 1 Mar 90 22:56:52 GMT
References: <900228173258.348448@DOCKMASTER.NCSC.MIL>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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In article <900228173258.348448@DOCKMASTER.NCSC.MIL> TMPLee@DOCKMASTER.NCSC.MIL writes:
>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.
>[...]
>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.

The Finder gives you the message "Unable to load necessary tools.  Error
number $0003" if it has any trouble starting things up--this includes
having a toolset *already* started up when it shouldn't be.  It sounds
like the system was trying to run the Finder, not your application.
That would mean you didn't successfully make a Quit call with the
return-to-me bit set in the flags ($8000).

>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.)

"Different" errors?  I could be more helpful with the numbers.  Did your
ShutDownTools correspond to a StartUpTools call you had made in your
application?
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