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From: rc3h+@andrew.cmu.edu (Ross Ward Comer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: HELP! HELP! HELP! My inis turned into documents!! HELP!!
Message-ID: <wZtAX7u00WB58BwKRt@andrew.cmu.edu>
Date: 23 Feb 90 05:23:19 GMT
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Organization: Class of '91, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
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pa1743@sdcc13.ucsd.edu (Jethro Bodean) writes:
>         I booted up and some of my inits had turned into documents
> and didn't install themselves.  Any thoughts - I've never heard of
> this - is it not something to be alarmed of - other than having to
> simply find my original inits again???  Help?
>         Any news on this??
>                                 -tk
>                                 pa1743%sdcc13@ucsd.edu

The problem is actually a feature of a program called "init cdev".
This cdev lets you control which inits are run on startup.
Unfortunately, it controls the inits by changing their type from init
to a plain document.  The way around this is to fire up "init cdev"
and highlight those inits (which will be unhighlighted).

There are other programs with similar features (Aask comes to mind,
among others) which may also be causing this problem.  The fix is the
same.


ross
rc3h@andrew.cmu.edu