Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wasatch!t-jacobs
From: t-jacobs@wasatch.UUCP (Tony Jacobs)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: init cdev & init
Keywords: great stuff
Message-ID: <1115@wasatch.UUCP>
Date: 14 Feb 89 17:19:15 GMT
References: <977@gmdzi.UUCP>
Reply-To: t-jacobs@wasatch.utah.edu.UUCP (Tony Jacobs)
Organization: University of Utah CS Dept
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In article <977@gmdzi.UUCP> jc@gmdzi.UUCP (Juergen Christoffel) writes:
>
>Because of the number of files stored in the system folder (INITs,
>CDEVs, a bunch of customization files for variuos APPLs) there's too
>much in it. I would like to not just have the blessed folder, but the
>blessed tree so that I might put my inits into e.g. "HD:System
>Folder:INITs" and my CDEVs into "HD:System Folder:CDEVs" and so on.
>
>	--jc


I SECOND that motion! (for the second time even) I have about 100 files in
the system folder that have to be there. Luckly, I use the MasterJuggler and
that lets me put a lot of files in another folder.  

Some kind soul created an INIT called "Ignore-Init" which replaces the standard
INIT 31 (actually renames it "iNIT 31") which allows a quick start when the
option key is held down, or just runs the regular INIT 31. I was browsing the
code for INIT 31 and realized one could probally modify it to look in a
particular folder for other INITs.  The problem is that INIT31 also looks at
RDEV's, CDEV's and perhaps others to run any initialization routines on. That
would perhaps be ok to put all of those kinds of files into one folder, but
then perhaps the Control panel and Chooser wouldn't be able to find their
files when they are run.

Come on Apple, I'm constantly seeing little utilities that ought to be part
of the operating system to begin with, I wouldn't give up the INIT 31 mechanism
but I sure would like to see more of these features built in instead of wasting
my time waiting for them to load on boot up.

-- 
Tony Jacobs * Center for Engineering Design * U of U * t-jacobs@ced.utah.edu