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From: ech@cbnewsk.att.com (ned.horvath)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: SYSTEM 7 and Mount Volume XFCN (was Mount Volume XFCN)
Message-ID: <1991Jun5.025047.2200@cbnewsk.att.com>
Date: 5 Jun 91 02:50:47 GMT
References: <14@ryptyde.UUCP>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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Leonard Rosenthol writes:
>      There is no way to mount AShare volumes in HC2.1, nor will you easily be
>able to get the current XCMD to work with 7.0.  The problem is simple - the
>XCMD expects to find the Appleshare 'extension' in the System Folder, however
>under 7 it is in the Extensions folder, therefore it can't find the stuff it
>needs to work.  One solution may be to put Appleshare into the System Folder,
> but then the Chooser wont find it....

Sorry Leonard, not so: the Chooser WILL find AppleShare in the System
Folder.

Bill (johnston@minnie.me.udel.edu) replies
 
> If this is the only problem, then leave it in the System Folder and alias
> it to the Extensions folder.  Or the other way around ...

Not necessary.  See above.

From article <14@ryptyde.UUCP>, by dant@ryptyde.UUCP (Daniel Tracy):

> Actually, it'll HAVE to be the other way around. INITs can be aliased, but
> they will NOT be recognized as INITs are startup, because the Alias Manager
> doesn't load before INITs are...

So far, so good.

> ...Anyway,
> make sure to put INITs in the Extensions folder and ALIASES on the System
> Folder level.

As a rule, yes, but many INITs and cdevs still expect to be in the System
Folder, and you can choose to put 'em there or live without.  In the case
of such cdevs, you should put the alias in the Control Panels folder.
What you should NOT do is put a copy of the cdev or INIT in both the
System folder and one of its subfolders: if you do it will execute twice
at startup, almost certainly not what the author intended.

At least in 7.0, INITs and cdevs in the System Folder proper DO get
executed at startup.  As mentioned above, the Chooser is also liberal
enough to look at both the Extensions folder and the System folder.  
Eventually I suppose that some version of the system may stop being so
liberal, but it's hard to see a compelling reason WHY:  There are
valuable gadgets out there that will never be updated...
-- 
=Ned Horvath=
ehorvath@attmail.com