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From: mfi@beach.cis.ufl.edu (Mark Interrante)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Streamlining the System File
Message-ID: <14838@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU>
Date: 15 Apr 88 13:46:04 GMT
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Reply-To: mfi@beach.cis.ufl.edu (Mark Interrante)
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Organization: UF CIS Department
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Keywords: system file, resedit

In article <3107@cg-atla.UUCP> ring@cg-atla.UUCP (Steve Ring) writes:
>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+. 

Does anyone know how this reduces the amount of RAM taken up in a MAC+.
Disk space is not a concern for me.

How about having  the installer program selectively delete such things from
the system when installed?(I am Suggesting an possible feature)


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