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From: peter@aucs.UUCP (Peter Steele)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Solution to the Network/Boot Disk/Font Problem?
Message-ID: <1982@aucs.UUCP>
Date: 29 Jun 89 11:29:07 GMT
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Organization: School of Computer Science, Acadia Univ., Nova Scotia
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>> We have a Mac network here (using MacJANET) and one of our biggest
>> problems is having insufficient room on the boot disks we distribute
>> to put anything more than a small selection of fonts and DAs.

> At the MacWorld here in Washington one of the educational users described a
> scheme where a Suitcase on the boot disk allowed the fonts and DAs to reside
> on a central server machine.  They had removed a critical resource from the
> Suitcase file to prevent it from appearing in the Apple menu.  If there is
> interest I'll dig out my notes and post a reference...

Yes, but to use Suitcase one would need a licence for it for each boot
disk distributed. Even at, say, $20 per Suitcase licence, we distribute
over 300 boot disks a year. $6000 is a lot of bucks for us to spend on
a somewhat minor problem. Fortunately, there are rumours that the next
release of MacJANET may have a Suitcase like facility built in....








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Peter Steele, Microcomputer Applications Analyst
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