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From: gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu (Garance A. Drosehn)
Subject: Re: Init manager for system 7
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Date: 13 May 91 21:53:23 GMT
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In article <1991May8.024015.16884@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> 
           dawg6844@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Dan Walkowski) writes:
> d2bx@vax5.cit.cornell.edu writes:
> >I have been running the beta system 7 for a while now.  It has lots of 
> >great features, but there are lots of conflicts with inits and cdevs.
> >I was wondering if anyone using it right now has a copy of something
> >like InitPicker for system 7.0 which also scans the extensions folder 
> >for inits before loading up.
> 
> 
> Although an Init manager would be nice, there is less need for it 
> in 7 because holding down shift at startup turns off ALL inits.

An init manager needs to turn off user-selectable sets of inits.  An  
all-or-nothing init manager is of little (if any) value to me.  It's
better than no init-loading options at all, but not much better.
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Garance Alistair Drosehn   = gad@rpi.edu  or  gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute;  Troy NY  USA
