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From: gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu (Garance A. Drosehn)
Subject: Re: DAs in the application layer under 7.0
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Date: 21 May 91 20:48:53 GMT
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In article <2846@public.BTR.COM> brecher@public.BTR.COM (Steve Brecher) writes:
> In <4902@ryn.mro4.dec.com>, long@mcntsh.enet.dec.com (Rich Long) writes:
> 
> > Is it possible to open a DA into the application layer under 7.0?
> > 
> > I have some DAs that now sit by themselves on the disk (took 'em out of
> > their little suitcases). Opening them from the Apple menu with or without
> > option held down just makes them open in their own layer.
> 
> Three ways:
> 
> (1) Use Font/DA Mover 4.1 to put the DA into the System file and use the
> Option key when opening the DA.
> 
> (2) Use Font/DA Mover 4.1 to put the DA into the application.  The DA will
> appear in only that application's Apple menu.  No Option key required.
> (Except when opening the application from within Font/DA Mover.)
> 
> (3) Open the suitcase file containing the DA, or the "unsuitcased" DA
> file (the kind you described in your posting) with Suitcase II 1.2.10 or
> later, and use the Option key when opening the DA.  "Unsuitcased" DA
> files opened with Suitcase II should NOT be in the Apple Menu Items
> folder else the DA will appear twice in the Apple menu.
> 
> Note:  Finder 7.0 will be so crestfallen at the thought of your wanting to
> use Font/DA Mover that it won't let you.  You have to launch it by other
> means.

Hmm?  I just launched the True-Type version of Font/DA Mover with no problem,  
and used it to install a DA into the TeachText application (just to try it out,  
I didn't really need that DA in TeachText).  Or is it that you can't use it on  
the Finder (or system file) itself?

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Garance Alistair Drosehn   = gad@rpi.edu  or  gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute;  Troy NY  USA