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From: mwilkins@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Mark Wilkins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: System 6.0.5 and init cdev
Message-ID: <5316@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>
Date: 22 Mar 90 08:05:10 GMT
References: <00934018.FA69D8E0@uclapp.physics.ucla.edu>
Organization: Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA 91711
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  Unfortunately, there's no way to make the installer cooperate with init
cdev.  However, that's a feature, not a bug.

  init cdev changes the file types of the files you turn off so that they
aren't opened by init 31 on startup.  Installer won't overwrite a file if
its type is not what it expects, because it must deal with the possibility
that you've just named another file wrongly.  So it asks you to deal with it.

-- Mark Wilkins