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- From: John Champion <dedjhc@arco.com>
- Subject: Re: Patching the _Launch Trap
- Message-ID: <1992Sep8.145100.26889@Arco.COM>
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- Organization: Arco Alaska Inc.
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- References: <1992Sep8.024049.20121@Arco.COM>
- Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 14:51:00 GMT
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- In article <abrn6k+.leonardr@netcom.com> Leonard Rosenthol,
- leonardr@netcom.com writes:
- > Welcome to the wonderful world of "protected patches". This is a
- >new trick in System 7 to make sure that programmers don't "screw up"
- system
- >patches. It basically means that it is near impossible to patch such a
- trap.
- >
- > If you could post what you are trying to accomplish by patching _Launch
- >someone could probably suggest an alternate approach that would be
- successful.
-
- I need FSSpec type information on applications and associated documents
- that are launched, particularly by the finder. Unfortunately, not all
- applications accept apple events so I can't just check for those.
-
- -John Champion dedjhc@arco.com
-