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gestalt SELECTORprocedure

Calls the Gestalt Manager with specified SELECTOR and returns an unsigned 32-bit integer.

SELECTOR
(or string symbol number).

An (or string symbol) is converted to a Macintosh 4-byte character value. The string length may not be greater than 4 but can be less; space padding will be performed.

Raises an oserr-condition for failure.