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From: cjeff@silver.lcs.mit.edu (Carl J.M. Alexander)
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Subject: Re: INIT WANTED!!!
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Date: 21 Jun 91 15:25:18 GMT
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In article <16880@leadsv.UUCP> dimaggio@force.decnet.lockheed.com writes:
>I am not extremely familiar with Sys 7 since I have not installed it yet.  
>But my boss has and he is looking for an init.  
>I guess you can put a folder in the apple menu.  Click on the apple and
>then click on the folder that appears and it will open.
>
>He is looking for an init that will list the contents of that folder while
>under the apple menu.
>
>Does such an INIT exist?? 

What your boss has heard about is HAM (Hierarchical Apple Menu) by Chris
DeRossi of Apple.  Chris posted a message to the net about it roughly a
week before System 7 was released, saying that he planned to release it
into the public domain on or about May 13.  He apparently developed HAM
on his own time, so it's his intellectual property, not Apple's; according
to net.rumour, the reason he hasn't released it into the public domain
is that, after posting that message, he was approached about releasing
it commercially instead and is presently engaged in negotiations.
 
Some people have flamed Chris for this decision, so I want to make it
clear that I *do not* share their feelings.  I am disappointed that HAM 
has not appeared in the public domain, and apparently shall not; but it
is his property to dispose of as he will.
 
--Carl Alexander                  |           BCS*Mac 
News Editor, The Active Window    |  The Boston Computer Society 
cjeff@silver.lcs.mit.edu          |     Macintosh Users Group