Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!gatech!amdcad!jimb From: jimb@amdcad.UUCP (Jim Budler) Newsgroups: net.micro.mac Subject: Re: Macintosh DA Message-ID: <10804@amdcad.UUCP> Date: Tue, 18-Mar-86 17:25:14 EST Article-I.D.: amdcad.10804 Posted: Tue Mar 18 17:25:14 1986 Date-Received: Wed, 19-Mar-86 05:21:26 EST References: <45@ur-tut.UUCP> <10688@amdcad.UUCP> <708@puff.UUCP> Reply-To: jimb@amdcad.UUCP (Jim Budler) Distribution: net Organization: AMD, Sunnyvale, California Lines: 33 In article <708@puff.UUCP> hammen@puff.UUCP (Zaphod Beeblebrox) writes: >In article <10688@amdcad.UUCP>, jimb@amdcad.UUCP (Jim Budler) types: >> In article <45@ur-tut.UUCP> akk2@ur-tut.UUCP writes: >> > >.....procedure to modify finder to make the startup disk remain the default >> >> NOTE: All of this is for Finder 4.1 ONLY, neither Keeper, nor the patch above >> work with other (older or newer) versions of the Finder!!!! >....... >> >> Jim Budler >> Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. >> (408) 749-5806 >> Usenet: {ucbvax,decwrl,ihnp4,allegra,intelca}!amdcad!jimb >> Compuserve: 72415,1200 > >Keeper works with Finder 5.1, as I use it on my Lisa and Profile every day. >I don't know how anyone with a large desktop file (mine is 132K) could ever do >without it. Does anyone know who wrote it? It doesn't work with my Mac512, system 3 finder 5.1. It runs and the Mac Bombs while closing the next application. Perhaps we have different versions, or we are talking about different programs entirely. The one I am talking about keeps the boot drive in place on a given disk, whether you run an application off another disk containing a system file or not. Sounds like 'your' keeper is HFS oriented. -- Jim Budler Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (408) 749-5806 Usenet: {ucbvax,decwrl,ihnp4,allegra,intelca}!amdcad!jimb Compuserve: 72415,1200