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From: ejb@think.com (Erik Bailey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: How to turn off System 7 zoomrects
Keywords: System 7 zoomrect
Message-ID: <1991Jun5.153218.21507@Think.COM>
Date: 5 Jun 91 15:32:18 GMT
References: <1991Jun5.145552.16047@agate.berkeley.edu>
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In article <1991Jun5.145552.16047@agate.berkeley.edu> bmug@garnet.berkeley.edu (BMUG) writes:
>Here's a way to turn off zoomrects in System 7:
>
>1) Open a copy of the Finder with Resedit 2.1
>2) Open the Code resource 
>3) Open Code ID 4 (yep, you need to decompress it)
>4) Select Find Offset and look for 0078. This should take you to a line
>   reading 48E7 1F38 594F 2F0F.
>5) Select 4 bytes (i.e., 48E7 1F38)
>6) Replace with the following: 6000 00E6.  This represents a BRA
>   instruction around the code that does zoomrects).
>7) Save the copy of the Finder and close ResEdit.
>8) Make the copy of the Finder the real thing.  Put the old one in a safe
>   place in case something went wrong.  Reboot.  Open a window.  Nirvana.
>
> [...]
>
>John Heckendorn

THANK YOU!!!  I haven't tested this myself, but (assuming it works) this
will save a LOT of aggravation.  Now why didn't Apple make this easier to
do...? *sigh*

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