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From: bill@utastro.UUCP (William H. Jefferys)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: MacPascal Question
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Date: Sun, 30-Jun-85 11:38:26 EDT
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Posted: Sun Jun 30 11:38:26 1985
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> By going in with Fedit and turning off some "invisible" bits, you can 
> indentify the four files MacPascal needs to run (The application, and
> three files called "IPAux", "IPInit" and "IPabout" if I recall).  Then
> you can copy these three files to a RAM/Hard/floppy disk, and start up
> MacPascal with whatever system you like.
> 
> However, the original MacPascal "master" must be in one of the floppy drives
> when you start up Mac Pascal, and when you save or open any files (best
> just leave it in the drive all the time, to avoid getting bitten).

Yes, I know about this.  There is a problem, however.  With the new
finder (and maybe with the old one too) MacPascal does something (to the
system heap?) that breaks the "copy one disk to another by dragging the
icon of one disc onto the other" operation.  You get a "Disk contains
locked items" message, even if neither disk has them.  Since I leave
my machine on for several days during the week and only turn it off on
the weekends (as has been recommended) I have to live with this until
the next time I start up the machine.  Can this be circumvented?

BTW, the MacPascal "master" has to remain in the drive at all times, not
only on the occasions you mention.  Otherwise the "one hundred clicks in
the editor window" worm will get you (MacPascal quits and all your work
goes down the toilet).

-- 
"Men never do evil so cheerfully and so completely as when they do so from
	religious conviction."  -- Blaise Pascal

	Bill Jefferys  8-%
	Astronomy Dept, University of Texas, Austin TX 78712   (USnail)
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