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Subject: Init Resources in another file...
Message-ID: <4657@decwrl.DEC.COM>
Date: Tue, 5-Aug-86 21:40:08 EDT
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Posted: Tue Aug  5 21:40:08 1986
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A recent article indicated that you could put INIT resources in a 
file  separate from  the  system  file  with  a  particular  TYPE 
signiture, in the same  folder,  and the system would make use of 
these INIT resources as if they were in the system file.

Now this is a good  idea  in that it reduces the number of things 
you have to diddle with each time you upgrade the System (and I'd 
LOVE to see this for DAs and  Fonts,  too, for the same reason!), 
but when I put my various INIT resources in  this  separate file, 
removed  them  from  the System, and rebooted, they WERE utilized 
but (of course) a problem:

When  I  then ran Keeper (to reduce return-to-finder time with my 
HD20) it  quickly  returned  to  the  regular  Finder,  acting (I 
suspect) as if  there  wasn't  enough memory (which Keeper uses a 
chuck of).

Obviously SOMETHING is different  when  the  INIT  resources  are 
external to the System, but  this  SHOULD  not  be the case.  Any 
ideas or other experiences?

Jeff