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- CPCopland
- Early Morning Serious Applications, Ltd.
- ©1995 Chris K. Thomas. All Rights Reserved.
- ckt@best.com
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- Once in everyone's life, there descends a time when
- (s)he must hack*. In the case of some Mac programmers,
- the urge to hack can become an obsession, bordering
- on the illicit, causing untold whispers of furious denial
- in halls distant, only known to the coder, the honky
- codemer, spirits flailing, softness darkening,
- and overheated silicon merging with the soul.
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- Today: such a time in my life. I felt like doing something
- totally obsolete and useless to future generations, so I
- wrote it partially in 68k assembly and threw routine
- descriptors to the wind. I took five minutes out of my
- day to implement that most curious of bit buckets, A
- Macintosh Hack.
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- CPCopland is a very small, simple hack: It fools the
- System into treating files with a type of 'APPC' as files
- of type 'APPL'. In other words, the System believes 'APPC'
- files are really applications.
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- What's the point? Control Panels in Copland will be full-
- fledged applications. Therefore:
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- 1. It would be a Good Thing to unified control panel
- standard for Copland and System 7.
- 2. Developers need to test Copland-destined Control Panels,
- and they can't do that until they actually posess Copland.
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- CPCopland offers a way to do either.
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- CPCopland should operate under any version of System 7.5;
- it's my guess that if it's incompatible with some other
- extension, it's the other extension's fault.
- No guarantees.
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- CodeWarrior/7 project included.
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- This software is provided AS IS, No warranties express
- or implied. This software has been tested for a total
- of five minutes on a single Mac with a negative extension
- count; therefore you use it •••at your own risk•••.
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- The contents of this file, CPCopland, and source code
- except where noted Copyright 1995 Chris K. Thomas.
- All Rights Reserved.
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- the shimmering sunlight shattering distantly
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- * Anti-PC folks and Guy Kawasaki may vomit here:
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