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- Clifford T. Matthews <ctm@ardi.com> wrote:
-
- >>>>>> "Eric" == eric Gandt <gandt@cville-srv.wam.umd.edu> writes:
- >In article <4f41a0$16h@cville-srv.wam.umd.edu> gandt@cville-srv.wam.umd.edu (eric Gandt) writes:
-
- > Eric> I know that executor has an extensions directory but does it
- > Eric> load the extentsions placed in it and if so of what type
- > Eric> should they be? If not will this support be in 2.0? Also
- > Eric> if it exist now and is not done by default how do I turn it
- > Eric> on. many thanks eric gandt gandt@pandora.dorm.umd.edu
-
- >The "Extensions" directory is just a placeholder to make some software
- >happy. Putting extensions in there will not make them work. Sorry to
- >have a misleading directory out there, but it was done for
- >compatibility reasons.
-
- >--Cliff
- >ctm@ardi.com
-
- I've been reading Inside Macintosh, and it seems rather simple to
- impliment. The Start Manager just searches in order, the System
- Folder, Extension Folder, and Control Panel Folder for INITs and
- CDEVs. It then loads the INIT resources in them and, if there, the
- SYSZ resource. Then it jumps to the begining of the block of memory
- with the INIT code resource. All items that are ment to stay in
- memory allocate space in the System Zone or System Heap (System 7),
- and then terminate the INIT process. I don't see this as being too
- hard to impliment. I know you at ARDI have your hands full, but if I
- were to make an App that could load extensions, how would Executor
- respond? Is there enough code in all of the managers to support this
- yet? And how would I increase the memory size with older resources by
- loading the SYSZ resource?
-
- -=Dan Guisinger=-
- dan_g@ix.netcom.com
- Proud registered user of Executor.
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