Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!apple!tecot
From: tecot@Apple.COM (Ed Tecot)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: INIT 30, Fancy Mouse Tracking
Keywords: INIT, Installer
Message-ID: <22462@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 19 Dec 88 01:55:24 GMT
References: <8420@ut-emx.UUCP>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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In article <8420@ut-emx.UUCP> jdm@ut-emx.UUCP (Jim Meiss) writes:
>	In last weeks MacWeek magazine there is a wonderful
>box which lists all the resources that the Installer updates
>removes, or installs, when you upgrade to System 6.02.
>	One of those is  INIT 30, for Fancy Mouse
>Tracking. Its only 318 Bytes long. Furthermore its not 
>installed when you use the minimal script.
>
>	Does anyone know what this does?
>
>	I have tried taking it out, and putting it back (rebooting
>of course), and playing with the control panel mouse settings
>but I can't tell any difference.
>
>	Must be some subtle effect!

Prior to Macintosh II, there were only 2 mouse speeds.  INIT 30 replaces
this with the five speeds now available today.  It is not needed for the
Mac II, as it is in ROM.

						_emt