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From: ccc_ldo@waikato.ac.nz (Lawrence D'Oliveiro, Waikato University)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: System 6.0.5 and init cdev
Message-ID: <261.260e46a8@waikato.ac.nz>
Date: 26 Mar 90 04:43:20 GMT
References: <00934018.FA69D8E0@uclapp.physics.ucla.edu> <5316@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>
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It sounds like "init cdev" needs a change in the way it works.

In current versions of the System, there is a flag bit called "no inits"
that you can set, for example with ResEdit 1.2. If the INIT 31 code sees
that this bit is set, it won't try to open the file to execute any INITs
in it (ha ha). It also sets it itself, after opening a file which might
contain INITs, only to find that there aren't any.

I imagine that setting this bit shouldn't upset the Installer.

Lawrence D'Oliveiro
Computer Services Dept, University of Waikato
Hamilton, New Zealand
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