Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!m2c!ulowell!cg-atla!ring
From: ring@cg-atla.UUCP (Steve Ring)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Streamlining the System File
Message-ID: <3107@cg-atla.UUCP>
Date: 14 Apr 88 17:59:16 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Compugraphic Corp., Wilmington, Mass
Lines: 32
Keywords: system file, resedit

Somewhere along the line, I received the  September '87 Mackey newsletter
(Volume 2, #9). In their discussion on ResEdit, ('Stripping the System",
author - Ken Peterson, Portland Mac User Group), they mention that if you
have a Mac+ (or 512E), then you use ResEdit to delete up to about 85K of
unused and unnecessary Mac II/SE system resources that are obviously not
required when one has a Mac+. They suggest a partial list from 4.1 system
file as follows:

Type  ID   Size Why          Comments
____  __   ____ ___________  ________
cicn  31   906  Mac II only  Special Mac II icon
DRVR   9  3282  in ROM       .MPP AppleTalk driver 
DRVR  10  2404  in ROM       .ATP AppleTalk driver 
PACK  12  9792  Mac II only  Color Picker
PTCH 376 12004  Mac II only  Patch for II roms
snd  all 21471  Mac II only  Startup sounds
SNTH all  7380  Mac II only  sound synthesizer(?)
 

My question then is this list still valid?, Has anyone else done this?, what
is the new list (with system 4.2)?, can us Mac+ users still delete Mac SE &
Mac II resources that we obviously don't need in our system file? How do we
now go about deleting these resources? The 85K I can save on an 800k disk,
might give me room for more fonts, applications, etc. I don't have a hard
disk yet. I haven't seem much discussion about this - probably cause most
people have hard disks. Any help would be appreciated.

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Steve Ring 
CompuGraphic Corp. 
Wilmington, Mass., 01887, (617) 658-5600, x5092