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- From: ses@cmns-sun.think.com (Simon Edward Spero)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
- Subject: Re: ***BASIC PROGRAMMING***
- Date: 19 Aug 92 19:37:26
- Organization: What's your clearance, citizen?
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- Message-ID: <SES.92Aug19193726@cmns-sun.think.com>
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- In-reply-to: csandy@cybaswan.UUCP's message of 19 Aug 92 10:48:14 GMT
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- In article <952@cybaswan.UUCP> csandy@cybaswan.UUCP (ap.parkman) writes:
-
- I'm not religous, but it's going to take more than we earthly programmers
- can manage to get code to run BEFORE there is any power to the machine!
- ( or can this be done in Assembly!!! ). Anyway I'll have a crack at it:
-
- ... Shehechionu vekiymanu vehigianu lazman haze :-)
-
- If you read Inside Macintosh VI, Chapter 31 "The Power Manager", you'll
- find details of (suprise,suprise) the power manager. One of the jobs of the
- power manager is to maintain the wakeup timer. This can be manipulated by
- the SetWUTime and GetWUTime functions.
-
- Not all macintoshes support these functions; the only ones I know of are
- the portable and the Powerbook 100. I don't know whether the new powerbooks
- can do it or not.
-
-
- Simon
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