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From: ephraim@leander.think.com (Ephraim Vishniac)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Wanted: "NULL" printer driver
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Date: 23 Jan 90 15:41:03 GMT
References: <1990Jan23.034921.569@smsc.sony.com>
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In article <1990Jan23.034921.569@smsc.sony.com> dce@smsc.Sony.COM (David Elliott) writes:
>For some silly reason, there are programmers who feel that not
>having a printer connected to a Mac warrants an alert.  When this
>is a DA that is used a lot, it can be very annoying.
>
>Does anyone know of a way to fake the system into appearing like
>it has a printer without actually having one?

No, but it's pretty easy to turn off alerts if they're genuine
resource-based alerts.

Open the offending software with ResEdit, find the offending alert,
choose "Display as Text" from the ALRT menu, and turn off the staging
bits.  (That is, uncheck the "drawn" boxes.) The alert will not be
drawn, but just return to the caller.  You can turn off beeps at the
same time. 
Ephraim Vishniac    ephraim@think.com   ThinkingCorp@applelink.apple.com
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