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From: ari@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Ari Halberstadt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: LDEF
Message-ID: <1991Jun2.191434.19009@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>
Date: 2 Jun 91 19:14:34 GMT
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In article <1991Jun1.195536.28209@ni.umd.edu> zben@ni.umd.edu (Ben Cranston) writes:
>In article <1991May31.172109.11246@athena.cs.uga.edu>
>kinsey@athena.cs.uga.edu (Kevin Kinsey) writes:
>
>> BTW, does anyone know if it's possible to alias an INIT under 7.0?
>
>No, it does not seem to be possible.  We asked this question of the Flying
>Apple Demo Team when they were out here last week, their definitive answer,
>(and they really spoke it in all caps, too!) was:
>
>  ALIASES ARE NOT SUPPORTED FOR EXTENSIONS
>
>Would have been nice, especially for being able to put things on fileservers
>to share them...


For some silly reason the OS doesn't support it, but there is a
solution, and there has been a solution for quite some time. There's
this awesome little system extension which will load all aliased
INITs, even if they're ona file server.  It's called INIT Loader, and
it comes on the 7.0 CD (even on the Beta CDs). The INIT works: I've
never had any problems with it, and it should be a real life saver for
network administrators.