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From: isle@eleazar.Dartmouth.EDU (Ken Hancock)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: cdev craze (Was: Re: I Love Moire CDEV)
Message-ID: <8072@eleazar.Dartmouth.EDU>
Date: 2 Feb 88 18:34:10 GMT
References: <887@xn.LL.MIT.EDU> <9350@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP> <10070@santra.UUCP>
Reply-To: isle@eleazar.Dartmouth.EDU (Ken Hancock)
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
Lines: 18
Keywords: INITs, CDEVs, hacks

In article <10070@santra.UUCP> jmunkki@santra.UUCP (Juri Munkki) writes:
>It would also be nice to be able to hide cdev's temporarily. I might
>want to hide Dimmer and some other rarely used init/cdev combinations
>so that often used cdevs would be visible. Editing the file names to
>achieve ordering and priority is a kludge.
         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Well of course it's a kludge.  Unfortunately, most people don't write
things correctly the first time.  If they're written correctly, order
really shouldn't matter -- and then instead of fixing them, they just
tell people to reorder it as a permanent fix instead of temporary...

Ken

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