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Apple Easter Eggs Programming By: David K. Every & Daniel Fanton (C) Copyright 1999 DKE - All Rights Reserved. Traps.h A little information: Traps.h is a part of the Universal Interfaces which are a set of files published by Apple that are for use by programmers. Basically what they do is define all of the Mac toolbox calls (traps) to tell your program where in the ROM calls are (via the address). This is probably a question you have never asked: Just what are the"Miscellaneous Traps" toward the end of Traps.h that have calls to DogCow locations? Well since you asked, these are the odd traps: _InitDogCow = 0xA89F, _EnableDogCow = 0xA89F, _DisableDogCow = 0xA89F, _Moof = 0xA89F, HFSPinaforeDispatch = 0xAA52, Those few defines in Traps.h are leftover baggage that are unused -- so the programmers figured "why not define them to something creative?" For what it is worth, 0xA89F is really _Unimplemented 0xAA52 is really _HighLevelFSDispatch Created: 07/26/99 Updated: 11/09/02 Top of page Top of Section Home