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From: sluggor@Athena.MIT.EDU (Scott Howlett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: INIT User guidlines proposal
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Date: 31 Oct 89 16:45:28 GMT
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I would definitely like some sort of unified approach to the handling of
INIT selection,
but, as a user, I would rather be able to bring up a dialog at the
beginning of the INIT
loading process and select all of the INITs to be loaded/skipped at
once, rather than to
wait for each one to load and ask me if I really want to load it.

In an ideal world, the INIT31 mechanism could be expanded to provide
this capability and
more.  I would really like the capability of storing several sets of
INITs to be loaded,
so I can, say, pick my Behind Dark Castle set, or my Really Intense
Programming set, or my
Man of Leisure set, rather than having to specify the load/no load
status of each INIT
individually every time.  I would also like to be able to choose
different orders of loading
for each set, which would alleviate much of the INIT renaming question. 
In addition, I feel
that it is important not to violate other INITs by changing their file
types as the version
of INIT cdev does. 

 Anybody interested in an expanded rewrite of INIT31?