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From: smith@coral.bucknell.edu (Greg Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: INIT conflict: Finder Sounds vs INIT cdev
Message-ID: <1990Dec6.132640.2973@coral.bucknell.edu>
Date: 6 Dec 90 18:26:40 GMT
References: <26730@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU>
Organization: Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA, USA
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In article <26730@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU>, geoffb@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Geoff Bronner) writes:
> 
> While this is a non-serious conflict I thought I would
> pass it on...
> I recently decided to try out INIT cdev 3.0 so I put it in
> the System folder and added about 10 or so random INITs
> so I'd have something to work with.
> 
> I've discovered that no matter what combination (or lack) of
> INITs I'm dealing with that INIT cdev cannot turn off Finder Sounds 1.3.
> 
> It will block the Icon that shows up during startup and lists it
> as in active but the Finder Sounds don't go away!

There is no conflict here.  As is stated in the Finder Sounds documentation,
INIT cdev cannot turn off Finder Sounds because Finder Sounds is not strictly
an INIT.  FS is a code resource that is used by hooks within the Finder.  When
the Finder is launched (after booting or running an application), it looks for
the file Finder Sounds in the System Folder.  If it finds such a file, it loads
the 'scod 256' resource, which contains a procedure for playing sounds.  From
time to time, the Finder will then call this procedure to make sounds.  The
INIT code within the Finder Sounds file is only there to display the icon at
startup.  Since the scod resource in Finder Sounds gets merged into the Finder
regardless of whether or not INIT cdev has changed the file type, INIT cdev (or
any other INIT managing utility) cannot turn FS off.  INIT cdev just wasn't
designed to handle this scenario.  I hope that I was able to provide a
satisfactory explanation as to why Finder Sounds is impervious to INIT cdev.

> Like I said, not a serious matter, but interesting none the less.
> 
> -Geoff Bronner '91
>  Student Consultant, Dartmouth Computing Services

Greg Smith
Finder Sounds author

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