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From: ech@poseidon.ATT.COM (Edward C Horvath)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Removing startup icons?
Message-ID: <583@poseidon.ATT.COM>
Date: 16 Nov 88 14:34:54 GMT
References: <593@husc6.harvard.edu>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Lincroft, NJ
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From article <593@husc6.harvard.edu>, by hellerst@husc4.HARVARD.EDU (Joe Hellerstein):
> Is there a quick, or at least reasonable way to keep startup icons from
> appearing when inits are installed?  ResEdit or Fedit or something?
> I know they don't always just use the desktop icon, so is it possible
> to simply remove certain ICONs with resedit?

There's no guarantee -- different methods are available -- but the original
Paul Mercer code just looks for an ICON with the appropriate ID and displays
it.  It fails soft if the ICON isn't present.  So, from ResEdit, open the
INIT/cdev/RDEV, open ICON, select the offending icon, and pick Clear from
the Edit menu.

Then reboot and hope you haven't encountered the fruits of a programmer who
had to prove s/he knew a better way...!

=Ned Horvath=