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From: chow@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Christopher Chow)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: INIT 31 should be enhanced!
Message-ID: <2636@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
Date: Mon, 12-Oct-87 14:18:05 EDT
Article-I.D.: batcompu.2636
Posted: Mon Oct 12 14:18:05 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 13-Oct-87 06:27:53 EDT
References: <2606@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> <21250@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>
Reply-To: chow@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Christopher Chow)
Organization: Cornell Theory Center, Cornell University, Ithaca NY
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In article <21250@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> oster@dewey.soe.berkeley.edu.UUCP (David Phillip Oster) writes:
>In article <2606@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> chow@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Christopher Chow) writes:
>
>>I propose that Apple writes into init 31 some mechanism from which you can
>>pick the list of inits which you want loaded.
>
>Such a mechanism already exists. You start your machine. In the
>Finder, you take all the INITs you don't want to run and drag them out
>of the System Folder into some other folder. Re-boot the machine. Only
>the INITs that you've left in the System Folder run. Simple.
>
>--- David Phillip Oster            --A Sun 3/60 makes a poor Macintosh II.

This is exactly the method which I rather not put up with!  If I know about
INIT 31 then I know about this method :-)  Do you really think this is a
_elegant_ way of doing thing when you have lots of init files (& other
files) in your System Folder?

It seems that something as fundamental and as simple choosing (on occasion)
what customizations you'd like to boot up with shouldn't entail changing the
contents of the system folder.  Not to mention this method takes alot longer
if some of your inits crashes your machine.  Note that sometimes these inits
can crash your machine during the boot up process, which means that you have
to start from a different startup disk just to move files around, and then
reboot.  I think it's a lot easier if something like what I suggested is
implemented.

Christopher Chow
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