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From: holland@m2.csc.ti.com (Fred Hollander)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Removing startup icons?
Message-ID: <63728@ti-csl.CSNET>
Date: 17 Nov 88 16:11:46 GMT
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In article <583@poseidon.ATT.COM> ech@poseidon.ATT.COM (Edward C Horvath) writes:
>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.

Does this mean that all INIT's have their ICN# (not ICON) displayed at
startup?  I thought that Paul Mercer's ShowInit INIT needed to be present in
in each INIT file that wanted it's ICN# displayed.  If that's true, then
all you need to do is remove the ShowInit INIT from the file.  Anyway, if
you remove the ICN#, won't that keep it from showing up in the Finder?  I
don't have experience with this so I'm not really sure.

>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=

Fred Hollander
Computer Science Center
Texas Instruments, Inc.
holland%ti-csl@csnet-rela

The above statements are my own and not representative of Texas Instruments.