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From: biswa@galileo.berkeley.edu (Biswa Ranjan Ghosh)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Hacking the "Welcome to Macintosh." intro
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Date: 27 Nov 90 19:44:26 GMT
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Reply-To: biswa@galileo.berkeley.edu (Biswa Ranjan Ghosh)
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I want to hack the "Welcome to Macintosh." logo that comes up at startup
to something more interesting. Yes, I know this is frivolous and puerile,
but it's *my* toy. (No,no,no, I'm not implying the Mac is only a toy. I
do use it for serious work now and then.)

I tried looking at a (copy of) the system file with Resedit last night. I
think I went through everthing, but couldn't find it. Did find the picture
of the Mac with mouse though.

So I ended up hacking it with Fedit, found the string, and replaced it with
something different. This works fine, as long as my new message is the same
length as the normal one.

Is the message stored as a resource that I can modify with Resedit, and if
so, what resource is it?  If not, is there a safe way to change the message
to something of different length?

AdThanksvance,
Biswa Ghosh