[CDG5] Random questions

[Elliot Nunn]

1. The Classic file seems to act as a System Enabler ("Gibbly").

2. Hadn't seen that new Lua port -- very cool! I wonder if MPW could
   eventually be persuaded to run binary Tools reentrantly. It would
   obviate a lot of MPW Shell hackery.

   Sadly I had trouble ever getting ToolDaemon to work. My workaround
   for a while was to SSH into a Tiger machine and send an Apple Event
   to ToolServer from there.

3. I have briefly looked into the on-disk encoding of compressed
   resources, in order to prevent
   [SimpleDeRez](https://pypi.org/project/macresources/) from choking on
   them. The scheme seems to rely on executable resources in the same
   file, and I'm naturally not keen to emulate those. But if you have
   some docs on the common format(s), then I am all ears!

   Bin-patching compressed resources for BuildCubeE has been
   frustrating. So far I have just opened them in ResEdit for
   decompression.

> On 28 Nov 2018, at 12:57 am, Jason Duerstock <jason.duerstock at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 1) Does anyone know how things get loaded from the "Classic" file in
> the System Folder?  Does this happen under native 9.x, or only under
> OS X?
> 
> 2) If you haven't seen these before:
> https://github.com/SolraBizna/MacLua5.3
> https://github.com/fblondiau/ToolDaemon
> http://www.kallisys.com/files/mac/toolserver(1)-1.2.dmg
> 
> 3) Has anyone looked into compressed resources and the associate
> 'dcmp' and 'ncmp' resources?  I'm wondering if it would be handy to
> have an lz4 resourcecompressor/decompressor.  Or if there would be
> another lossless codec that would be more appropriate.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Jason
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