Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!leah!rpi!batcomputer!cornell!uw-beaver!blake!phaedrus
From: phaedrus@blake.acs.washington.edu (the Wanderer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re:  Finder question (IIGS)
Message-ID: <1106@blake.acs.washington.edu>
Date: 8 Mar 89 23:57:49 GMT
References: <8903081014.aa08220@SMOKE.BRL.MIL> <18332@srcsip.UUCP>
Reply-To: phaedrus@blake.acs.washington.edu (the Wanderer)
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
Lines: 31

In article <18332@srcsip.UUCP> shankar@haarlem.UUCP (Son of Knuth) writes:
>In article <8903081014.aa08220@SMOKE.BRL.MIL> JDA@NIHCU.BITNET (Doug Ashbrook) writes:
>>Talking about new features, I recently had reason to use the relative
>>new feature (added in 4.0, I think) where you can set a desk
>>accessory to "inactive". 
>
>How?

     From within the Finder, just select the desk accessory you want to
deactivate (open the DESK.ACCS folder and select the file within it, that 
is; don't select it from the Apple menu), and press Apple-I to call up the
Information window.  In addition to the old "Locked" box that could be
toggled on and off, there is now a box for "Inactive".  Just click on that
box, and the next time you boot the system disk, that desk accessory
will not be loaded.
     In addition to desk accessories, this feature also works on everything
else that GS/OS loads at startup time--drivers and system setup files.
This is a *great* feature if, like me, you have 5.25" drives but only use
them occasionally.  Deactivate the 5.25" driver, and the long wait and
obnoxious grinding noise caused by GS/OS looking for nonexistent disks in
those drives goes away!  Then, if you ever want to use those drives from
GS/OS, just activate the driver again and reboot.
     (By the way, on the technical side, I believe that an inactive DA,
driver, etc. is flagged by adding $8000 to its auxinfo field.  I don't have
my manuals with me, though, so don't quote me.)

--
  Mark VanWinkle
   Computer Science Hopeful, University of Washington
    INTERNET: phaedrus@blake.acs.washington.edu
     "APPLE ][ FOREVER!"  (Or at least until I can afford a SE/30...)