Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!uwm.edu!linac!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!sei.cmu.edu!fs7.ece.cmu.edu!o.gp.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!jo0e+ From: jo0e+@andrew.cmu.edu (Jared M. Oberhaus) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware Subject: Re: Phantom INIT Message-ID: Date: 29 Mar 91 05:36:27 GMT References: <5127@mindlink.UUCP> Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Lines: 15 In-Reply-To: <5127@mindlink.UUCP> The INIT you're talking about is the Communications Toolbox which includes at least part of Apple's new Data Access Language. This is a major improvement in the way Macs will integrate with other database systems and languages. The last I heard, it supports SQL, Informix, VAX database systems, VMS, etc... The Communications Toolbox will come with System 7, and already is included in many network drivers for EtherTalk, TokenTalk, etc. If you boot from your installer disk and erase the system file completely, (don't forget to copy your DAs, Sounds, Fkeys, and Fonts into a suitcase!) and install the system again, it'll be gone. The reason it wasn't removed from the System the first time you reinstalled it was because the installer leaves many system resources alone, such as Fonts, DAs, special INITs, etc. (INIT resources can be stored in the System file--that's how INIT file loading is accomplished). It was just being friendly.