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From: levin@star-trek.bbn.com (Joel B Levin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Suitcase and system 7
Summary: Yes, Suitcase is a good idea (summary of responses)
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Date: 24 May 91 13:04:00 GMT
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In article <6546@archive.BBN.COM> levin@BBN.COM  I wrote:
|I don't pretend to know anything about system 7.0 (in fact I know
|practically nothing, no pretending).  I have heard that fonts and DAs
|are handled better than at present.
|
|A friend is getting a new machine and will probably go to 7.0 much
|sooner than I will.  She will probably not acquire a great man DAs,
|but she will almost certainly use fonts by the ton. . . .  So the
|question is: what does Suitcase do for one under system 7.0?

Thanks to Kenneth Chang, Larry Rosenstein, Robert Hammen, and Steve
Brecher, the author of Suitcase for responding.  The bottom line is
that I will recommend to my friend that she buy Suitcase.  While it is
relatively easy in System 7 to move fonts in and out of the System
file, it is essentially similar to using Font/DA Mover.  Suitcase lets
you keep the suitcase files separate and include or remove them from
the current list individually without copying to or deleting from the
System (or any) file.

I should add that I know no reason that MasterJuggler shouldn't be
used instead of Suitcase; it is merely that I happen to own and like
Suitcase and I don't know anything about MasterJuggler.  I have no
connection with Suitcase, its author or publisher, except as a happy user.

	/JBL
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