Menu Bar Clocks

[Tony Cooper]

In article <2983 at randvax.UUCP>, frel at randvax.UUCP (Dave Frelinger) writes:
|> 
|> I was wondering if anyone has gotten a menu bar clock to work
|> under A/UX 2.0.1?  Things like SuperClock 3.9 that work under 2.0
|> don't seem to be working under 2.0.1.  I am running from a

Well for me SuperClock 3.9 didn't work under 2.0 but does work under 2.0.1.

"Programs" like SuperClock try to write to themselves - they store setup
information and suchlike in resource forks. This is a very un Unix like
thing to do so problems often arise. I don't know what's happening in this
case but I'm guessing that a reason why we see so much "mine works", "mine
don't" is to do with programs writing to themselves and file protections.
And it's complicated because there are two write protection schemes in A/UX.
The MacOS and the Unix scheme both have to be set to allow writes else
writes won't occur. Check them both. Another thing I'm not sure about is that
it might be necessary to have the resource fork and data forks in separate
files. It seems conceivable that if both were in one file and a program tried
to write to its resource fork, it might not be allowed to because the Unix
side of things thinks that the program is trying to modify itself. But I
haven't played with such things and in this case SuperClock just looks like 
a data file to the Unix side so I don't think this is relevant in this case
(or any other case). Just a thought.

Cheers,
Tony Cooper