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From: mxmora@unix.sri.com (Matthew Xavier Mora)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Init Delete Thyself
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Date: 22 May 91 22:28:42 GMT
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How do you get an init to delete itself? I have a message init that 
displays a message at startup like, "We have installed new printer drivers
on your machine please call ext xxxx if you have any problems."

After the user clicks ok, the init should delete itself. Currently I have
the Init delete the INIT code resource out of the resource fork. This
makes the init benign, but still leaves the init file in the system folder.
This is not optimal. 

I would like to completly delete the file from the system folder but there
seems to be a few problems. For one, the file is busy and the second thing, 
if you delete a file in the system folder at init time, then you screw up the
index count of the system folder. 

So how do you get an init to delete itself? Do I have to set up some vbl task
or something?

Thanks

Matt