Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!snorkelwacker!apple!Apple.COM!lsr From: lsr@Apple.COM (Larry Rosenstein) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: HELP! HELP! HELP! My inis turned into documents!! HELP!! Message-ID: <6913@internal.Apple.COM> Date: 26 Feb 90 22:26:04 GMT Sender: usenet@Apple.COM Organization: Objects-R-Us, Apple Computer, Inc. Lines: 22 References:<7696@sdcc6.ucsd.edu> <1928@wrgate.WR.TEK.COM> <6653@arisia.Xerox.COM> In article <6653@arisia.Xerox.COM> ebert@arisia.Xerox.COM (Robert Ebert) writes: > In article <1928@wrgate.WR.TEK.COM> herbw@midas.WR.TEK.COM (Herb Weiner) writes: > >INIT CDEV and related utilities disable INITs (and cdevs and rdevs) by > >changing their type. This causes the INITs to loose their ICONs and > >display as generic documents. > > Of course, the correct way to do it would be for the init handler authors > (or other interested bodies) to write the code that adds the new icons Actually, it isn't necessary to change the type of the INIT file. There is a file attribute that indicates whether the file contains INITs. Clearing that bit is enough to ensure that the INIT isn't loaded at boot time. Larry Rosenstein, Apple Computer, Inc. Object Specialist Internet: lsr@Apple.com UUCP: {nsc, sun}!apple!lsr AppleLink: Rosenstein1