Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!ccicpg!felix!dhw68k!thecloud
From: thecloud@dhw68k.cts.com (Ken McLeod)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Do CDEVs work without Control Panel installed?
Message-ID: <14466@dhw68k.cts.com>
Date: 2 Nov 88 10:55:58 GMT
References: <949@mace.cc.purdue.edu>
Reply-To: thecloud@dhw68k.cts.com (Ken McLeod)
Organization: Wolfskill residence; Anaheim, CA (USA)
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In article <949@mace.cc.purdue.edu> ajq@mace.cc.purdue.edu (John O'Malley) writes:
>OK, here's a simple question.  Do CDEVs like Vaccine work when they are
>installed on a hard disk that has no Control Panel installed?

  Here's the simple answer: yes. Vaccine (and many others) are actually
INITs, with a 'cdev' interface for setting parameters. Once you've set
the parameters the way you want them, you can blow away the Control
Panel DA and they will continue to load at boot time in the normal way.



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