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From: gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu (Garance A. Drosehn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Will there be a non-System 7 trashing System 6 ?
Message-ID: <7gdlry+@rpi.edu>
Date: 25 Jun 91 15:41:00 GMT
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In article <1541@quintus.UUCP> johnt@quintus.UUCP (John Grant) writes:
> Wouldn't it be nice if ...
> 
> a)	You could fit system 7 on to an 800K disk
> b)	When you ran System < 7 the disk did not have tp have its
> 	"desktop updated" when you started System 7 again. This point
> 	is the more critical to me - sitting for the best part of half an
> 	hour while the desktops get rebuilt is *really* tedious.
> 
> I feel sorry for those with large internal drives, they can't easily
> disconnect them when using System 6, at least I can unplug the drives
> I'm not going to use.

There's an init called "Desktop Manager" from Apple, which seems to do the job  
for me.  I put it in my 6.0.7 system folder, and like magic system 6.0.7  
understands the same desktop files that system 7 uses.

I got my copy of "Desktop Manager" because we have Appleshare servers (it comes  
with Appleshare, I guess).  I think there are other ways to get it, but I do  
not know the specifics.  Perhaps it is available at ftp.apple.com, but I don't  
know where...

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Garance Alistair Drosehn     =     gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu
ITS Systems Programmer            (handles NeXT-type mail)
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute;           Troy NY    USA