Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usenet From: gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu (Garance A. Drosehn) Subject: Re: Init manager for system 7 Message-ID: Nntp-Posting-Host: eclipse.its.rpi.edu References: <1991May8.024015.16884@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: 13 May 91 21:53:23 GMT Lines: 19 In article <1991May8.024015.16884@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> dawg6844@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Dan Walkowski) writes: > d2bx@vax5.cit.cornell.edu writes: > >I have been running the beta system 7 for a while now. It has lots of > >great features, but there are lots of conflicts with inits and cdevs. > >I was wondering if anyone using it right now has a copy of something > >like InitPicker for system 7.0 which also scans the extensions folder > >for inits before loading up. > > > Although an Init manager would be nice, there is less need for it > in 7 because holding down shift at startup turns off ALL inits. An init manager needs to turn off user-selectable sets of inits. An all-or-nothing init manager is of little (if any) value to me. It's better than no init-loading options at all, but not much better. - - - - - - - - Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@rpi.edu or gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy NY USA