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From: wiseman@tellab5.TELLABS.COM (Jeff Wiseman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Help!  Lost half of Control Panel!
Message-ID: <1993@tellab5.TELLABS.COM>
Date: 17 Jan 90 14:51:45 GMT
References: <1190@husc6.harvard.edu> <1863@mrsvr.UUCP>
Reply-To: wiseman@tellab5.UUCP (Jeff Wiseman)
Organization: Tellabs, Inc. Lisle IL
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In article <1863@mrsvr.UUCP> hallett@gemed.ge.com (Jeffrey A. Hallett (414) 548-5163) writes:
>In article <1190@husc6.harvard.edu> hellerst@husc4.UUCP (Joe Hellerstein) writes:
>>For some reason, I now only get the left half of my control panel when I
>>pull it up.  I've tried using single-Finder and removing all inits except
>
    [stuff removed]
>
>This sounds like the problems I had with  the Nothing  INIT.   I found
>that even after I removed it and rebooted,  the problem stayed around.

Depending on your "point of view", this is NOT a problem. In fact, the whole
intent of the Nothing CDEV (notice the word "CDEV") is to do exactly what you
have described. It is intended to be a joke type application.

When you open your control panel after installing Nothing and booting your
system, if you select "Nothing", the right side of the panel disappears (ie.
you GET "nothing"). To get the panel back, you have to select "Nothing" and
then "something" such as mouse or General (or was that select "something" and
then "Nothing"? I actually forget but it is a sequence thing).

Anyway the only problems here are not understanding the application that was
meant to be a joke by being a problem (does that make sense? :-)

By the way, I have found a PRACTICAL application for Nothing. By selecting
Nothing in my control panel, I can prevent my 4 and 5 year olds from mucking up
my other "somethings" by removing the control panel views. It's sorta like a
combination lock for the control panel!

By the way, anybody out there remember the Bob INIT? Another nifty little
problem creator! (don't mind me, I have a warped sense of humour anyway :-)

Hope this helps guys!


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