Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!AppleLink.Apple.Com!Greg
From: Greg@AppleLink.Apple.Com (Greggy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Desktop pictures
Message-ID: <2425@internal.Apple.COM>
Date: 20 Jun 89 23:26:15 GMT
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In article <12266@well.UUCP> svc@well.UUCP (Leonard Rosenthol) writes:
> In article <7679@hoptoad.uucp>, tim@hoptoad.uucp (Tim Maroney) writes:
> > I glommed the technique from an old INIT called "StartupScreen" or
> > something.  (The author has never come forth.)  
> >
>         Just to clear up this bit of interesting 'Macintosh History', as
> Tim points out the original 'BackDrop-like' program was called 
> StartupScreen and was written by none other than Darin Adler 
> (now with Apple System Software) as an interesting 'hack'.
> Someone asked him why startup screens had to go away [after startup time]
> and his answer was 'StartupScreen'.

Just to clear up this bit of cleared up 'Macintosh History', the hack in
question was called StartupDesk.  StartupScreen is the name of the file
you want displayed at startup time.

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