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		RodgerTheGreat on Dec 26, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Installing A/UX on the Quadra 610 (2018) One thing I'm curious about- was Commando "pre-baked" with dialogs for all of the pre-installed utility commands, or did it pull from some kind of user-extensible database? Metadata stashed in the resource fork of the commands, maybe?

ksherlock on Dec 26, 2019 [–]

The MPW version of Commando relied on a 'cmdo' resource on the utility.

RodgerTheGreat on Dec 26, 2019 | [–]

Cool! A very elegant and "Classic MacOS-ish" solution.

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