A/UX and the toolbox

Jon W{tte d88-jwa at dront.nada.kth.se
Sat Feb 9 20:39:39 AEST 1991


In article <48983 at apple.Apple.COM> ksand at Apple.COM (Kent Sandvik) writes:
>There's a way to push in events under A/UX MultiFinder mode, and that is 
>with AUXDispatch(). The A/UX Toolbox Macintosh ROM interface descibes
>the various options with AUXDispatch (alas this is not included in the 
>on-line manual...). In the case of posting events, it looks like:

Hmm... I thin it's too bad that the online manuals don't contain
toolbox information as well - like an online copy of Inside Mac for A/UX :-)

The screensaver shouldn't _post_ events, though, just listen in to them.
Is there a way using AUXDispatch ?

>>Also, the man page for /mac/bin/launch(1) and the program itself
>>are not very consistent.

>I would like to know more about this.

Okay, here goes:

h+mac.h+:1> man 1 launch
...
          launch -[it] filename [document...]
          launch -p[it] filename document...
...

h+mac.h+:2> launch -t Storm
launch: illegal option -- t
usage: launch [-padr] appName [docName ...]
h+mac.h+:3>

Now, what does "adr" and "it" have in common - the intersection is
the empty set :-(

Anyway, thanx for a great OS,

							h+
"The IM-IV file manager chapter documents zillions of calls, all of which
seem to do almost the same thing and none of which seem to do what I want
them to do."  --  Juri Munkki in comp.sys.mac.programmer



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