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From: jimb@silvlis.com (Jim Budler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Two system folders on same disk (= death?)
Message-ID: <1990Nov18.052911.8513@silvlis.com>
Date: 18 Nov 90 05:29:11 GMT
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In article <1990Nov17.174407.23497@wpi.WPI.EDU> macman@wpi.WPI.EDU (Chris Silverberg) writes:
>In article <4133@idunno.Princeton.EDU> bskendig@dew.Princeton.EDU (Brian Kendig) writes:
>
>>The trick to using two (or more!) System Folders on a single disk is
>>that you have to make the computer think that one of them isn't a
>>valid System Folder.  The way I do this is to create a new folder
>>(which I usually call `Finderfolder'), and drag the Finder of the
>>unwanted System Folder into it.  As long as the Macintosh doesn't see
>>the System and the Finder files in the same level of the same folder,
>>it won't bless that folder.
>
>I do it a little differently, which probably just yeilds the same results...
>but this is what Apple recommended so here is how I do it:

I don't do this currently, but I did it in the past. There are a couple
of products out, ones called "Blesser", one was provided by Canon,
which allow you to select the "Blessed" folder. I used the Canon
one for months when I wanted to switch between an INIT rich environment
on a 512K Mac and an INIT poor environment so I could back up my disk.

I used the Canon one. They're intent was to let people switch from
American to Kanji environments. It's freeware. Anyone wants it. I'll
pull it from my archives.

jim

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