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From: gwk@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Tom Arnold)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: More fuel to the WDEF virus fire
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Date: 8 Dec 89 19:04:56 GMT
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In article <3676@mace.cc.purdue.edu> ajq@mace.cc.purdue.edu (John O'Malley) writes:
>[...]  Eradicator! reportedly bombs on 68000s, so I instead
>looked in his Desktop file with ResEdit.  It *did* have a "WDEF = 0"
>resource.  He didn't have any font menu problems.  Once the Desktop was
>rebuilt, WDEF was gone.

I bounced this idea off of John, now I'm curious about what others think.
Instead of trying to obtain a copy of Eradicator!, wouldn't it be simpler
to just rebuild the DeskTop at boot (ie: hold down the option & command keys
during startup)??  Maybe this is too simplistic...  John pointed out that
there are some drawbacks, like losing GetInfo information for example.
When rebuilding the DeskTop it only keeps things it "thinks" it'll use, so
sometimes one can lose icons some applications did use.  This results in a
generic icon in place of the original.  Double edged sword, I guess.

>John O'Malley           / Macintosh  / Purdue University / (317)
>ajq@mace.cc.purdue.edu / Specialist / Computing Center  / 494-1787

Tom Arnold	!(a Mac Specialist)	Purdue University
gwk@mentor.cc.purdue.edu