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From: Garance_Drosehn@mts.rpi.edu (Garance Drosehn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: INDISPENSIBLE INITs and CDEVs
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Date: 8 Sep 90 01:01:37 GMT
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst.
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INITPicker   -> to help keep track of the INITs & cdevs
Suitcase II  -> Can't imagine the Mac without loads of fonts, DAs, sounds,
                and a few FKEYs.
Pyro 4.0     -> Entertains passers-by when I'm not busy on my Mac.  Oh, yeah,
                saves the screen from burn-out at the same time.
DFaultD      -> Does the stuff that most people pick Boomerang for.  This
                is the shareware version (which is no longer available).
                A commercial version is part of "Now Utilities".
Lookup INIT  -> (& matching DA) Spelling checker, checks as I type, or
                the DA can be called up to check a single word.
Findswell    -> Another helpful option for the SF dialog.  Useful when you
                know the name (or part of the name) of a file, but can't
                remember where that file is.
PopChar CDEV -> Makes it trivial to find the character you're looking for
                in the font that's currently active.  Great price too.
Windowshade  -> Allows one to make the contents of a window disappear so
                you can see (and click on) whatever windows are behind it.
                This is still useful even though I have the Set-Aside
                feature of multifinder.  Great price too (ie, free).
SuperClock   -> Like this a lot, although it seems to cause problems in a 
                few oddball situations.

Well, there's more of course.  All the inits and cdevs I have are pretty 
useful, or I wouldn't have them in there in the first place!  But these 
are the ones that are important enough that I have them both at work and 
at home.  And of course there's things like MacTCP, TMON, CD-ROM related 
INITs, etc, etc.

Garance_Drosehn@mts.rpi.edu
ITS Systems Programmer
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy, NY.  USA