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From: ml27192@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Mark Lanett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: A weird utility & installing sys 7.0
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Date: 18 May 91 18:47:11 GMT
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jmunkki@hila.hut.fi (Juri Munkki) writes:

>I'm one of the lucky ones who didn't even have to fight with ftp to get
>System 7.0. I just installed it from a CD-ROM.

>Most of the work is now done, and I'm mostly pleased. There are still a
>few gripes that I want to point out.

>    - There seems to be no way to replace Monaco 9. Even though I added
>      it to the ROM override list, it doesn't appear in a suitcase file
>      when I open one. I want a font where I 0 and O are different. I
>      might start using Courier.

This is the easiest thing about System 7! Just create/modify a new Monaco 9 and
use the Font/DA Mover to copy it in! It'll work. This also works with Chicago:-)
There is no need to muck with ROV# because System 7 doesn't use FONTs -- it
uses NFNTs for bitmaps, and these aren't in the ROMs.

>	cmd-shift-E doesn't eject-unmount a disk any more. It used to work.

Try Command-Y.

>Instead of putting preferences files in the preferences folder, I set their
>invisible bits. I used to do this with DiskTop, but my version doesn't seem
>to work any more (yes, it's a legal copy, but old). I can do it with ResEdit,
>but it's too slow.

Dumb. What is someone wants to copy their app -- now they can't take the prefs
with them. Also, they can't double-click on the prefs file to launch the
app with that set of prefs -- irritating when more than one person is using
the app, or they have more than one set of prefs. Just because you auto-save
the prefs file in the system folder doesn't mean they are locked into only one
set.
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Mark Lanett						ml27192@uxa.cs.uiuc.edu
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