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From: gillies@m.cs.uiuc.edu (Don Gillies)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Suppressing StartUp applications
Message-ID: <1991Jun5.025235.7111@m.cs.uiuc.edu>
Date: 5 Jun 91 02:52:35 GMT
References: <48265@bcsaic.UUCP>
Organization: University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Urbana, IL
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I have written an INIT called "BootSwitch" that just does this.  When
the caps lock key is down, it suppresses the startup file (in
multifinder).  When the caps lock key is up, it runs the startup file.

I'll try to post it to sumex in a day or two so that you can try it
out.  It is pretty bare-bones (i.e. only works with multifinder,
doesn't work with 7.0), but I am considering enhancing it if there is
more interest (anyone know how to check for system >= 7.0 ?)

By the way, my mac is set to launch RR9.4 and autodial/login to a
remote computer.  My modem is wired to the Mac II power relay.  I just
hit the power-on key, come back 3 minutes later, and I have a terminal
logged in halfway across town.  I can hit the power key, hit the
key-caps lock key, and come back 3 minutes later, and multifinder is
running normally (no dial-in).  Tres useful.

If you are tricky you can even make BootSwitch choose between two
separate startup files depending on the key-cap position.  Or you can
use it to reverse the sense of caps-lock-up and caps-lock-down.
Unfortunately, there is no CDEV interface, so I need to write
instructions on how to do these things.

Don Gillies	     |  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
gillies@cs.uiuc.edu  |  Digital Computer Lab, 1304 W. Springfield, Urbana IL




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