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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: 14 May 91 19:16:03 GMT
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In article <52857@apple.Apple.COM> bc@Apple.COM (bill coderre) writes:
> gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu (Garance A. Drosehn) writes:
> |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.
> 
> Gee, then it's a good thing that both AAsk and Init Manager work under
> System 7, right? [source: MacUser]

Lest my earlier comment (the one quoted in the article above) be mistaken, I  
was not commenting on system 7.0 itself.  I was commenting on someone who said  
you didn't need an init manager in system 7.0, because the system now allows  
you to turn off all inits at bootup.  That feature, while helpful, should not  
be confused as being a replacement for a good init manager (not for those of us  
who try out lots of inits & cdevs, at least...).

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Garance Alistair Drosehn   = gad@rpi.edu  or  gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute;  Troy NY  USA
