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From: dmt@palace.uucp (Darryl Trujillo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: System 7.0: Interesting Times
Keywords: 7.0, Suitcase
Message-ID: <1991May21.035848.3364@palace.uucp>
Date: 21 May 91 03:58:48 GMT
References: <19650@crdgw1.crd.ge.com>
Organization: Piner Palace
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leue@galen.crd.ge.com (Bill Leue) writes:

>A few other things that I don't like so much:  I think most people will
>want to lose the balloon help after about 0.02 nanoseconds.  It's pretty
>obnoxious.  Fortunately, you can turn it off easily.  Unfortunately, the
>balloon control continues to take up room in your menu bar.  I hope 
>someone writes an INIT or patch that gets rid of it.

Baloon help might get more interesting as more apps begin to support it...

>A minor mystery:  does anyone know what the "Startup" folder in the
>System Folder is for?  The few INIT's that I decided to keep all went into
>the "Extensions" folder -- my Startup folder is empty.  I had thought that
>since INIT's were called "Startup Documents" in the System 6.x view by
>name listings, they would go into the Startup folder, but NOOOO.  I'd
>really like to know that kind of files are supposed to go there.

The "Startup" folder is for stuff you want run at system startup time:
apps, cdevs, da's, whatever.  Another place where aliases are nice.

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