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From: alexis@ccnysci.UUCP (Alexis Rosen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: 160Mb Drive
Message-ID: <1693@ccnysci.UUCP>
Date: 23 Apr 89 07:43:45 GMT
References: <664@cf-cm.UUCP> <1530@ccnysci.UUCP> <909@smurf.ira.uka.de>
Reply-To: alexis@ccnysci.UUCP (Alexis Rosen)
Organization: City College of New York
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In article <909@smurf.ira.uka.de> urlichs@smurf.ira.uka.de (Matthias Urlichs) writes:
><It is definitely safe. It has noticeable but minor and non-malevolent effects
><under some infrequent conditions, in multifinder only (and these effects only
><last until the next bootup).

I was referring to the "DeskTop Manager" INIT that comes with AppleShare,
not to the Finder's Desktop file.

>Including a) the inability to unmount anything which is not a floppy disk,
>b) a horrible slowdown (this really is a Finder bug) when you copy 100
>LaserWriter fonts onto your HD, everyone of which has the Bundle Bit set. :-(

There is a nice easy fix for the first problem. Harry Starr wrote a patcher
for the Finder that makes it close the two desktop d* files so that removable
media such as the Syquest 45 can be ejected. It should be available for FTP.


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Alexis Rosen
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