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From: moriarty@tc.fluke.COM (The Napoleon of Crime)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Early impressions of Suitcase
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Date: Sat, 22-Aug-87 11:05:33 EDT
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Posted: Sat Aug 22 11:05:33 1987
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Keywords: DAs Fonts Suitcase
Summary: Review of Suitcase

I've been monkeying with a copy of Suitcase that a friend got at Boston;
Suitcase is an Init file which allows you to dynamically load fonts and DAs,
instead of having them taking up room in the System file.  Two folders are
put in your System folder -- "DAs" and "Fonts" -- and any DA or Font files
in these respective folders are auto-loaded at boot-up.  You can also
dynamically load in DAs, like Double Apple, but with more reliability than I
ever found in Double Apple or Other...

However, there are still some things I don't like:

1)  MS Word doesn't recognize any of the fonts you load.  Ouch.

2)  My System only allows 9 DAs besides Suitcase at any one time (this may
be due to a screwed-up System).  However, Since you now have "dynamic
DAs", it sure doesn't hurt much.

3)  This is a biggie -- Suitcase has a Cmd-K key binding, which screws me up
when I'm running Versaterm and using Emacs.  However, I believe I can get
rid of that with ResEdit (right?).

4)  Something you should realize... if you have DAs that modify themselves,
such as setting default values (such as the phone numbers in Qdial,
preferences in DiskTop), you need to save the settings you want, THEN dump
them in the autoload folder.

5)  Talking Moose don't work.  Waaaaah!  (OK, but it doesn't work without
Suitcase, either).

Overall, a nice piece of work.  I understand it should sell for about $30,
which seems reasonable.  I've been checking with MacConnection, but it isn't
in yet...

                        "We Americans, we're a simple people... but piss us
                         off, and we'll bomb your cities."
                                        -- Robin Williams

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