myers@uwmacc.UUCP (04/02/87)
Bob Heiney's recent comments on the problems one has with System 4.0 on
floppy only systems led me to finally tailor things for myself. His
directions were a bit sketchy if you're a novice ResEdit user, and the
fixes below are for two separate problems rather than just the trash
auto-empty problem which he was concerned with. The other 'problem'
concerns an additional disk swap often initially called for in certain
instances (usually when you are doing disk copies or copying files
between two disks without the system disk sitting in a drive).
Make the following mods to the new System file (using Get Info in ResEdit
for the appropriate resources):
ICON ! in a triangle check preload box
ICON hand in stop sign check preload box
Make the following mods to the new Finder (you may wish to edit the fields
at the end of the LAYO resource while you are at it (I turn off trash
warnings and set always grid drags)):
ALRT 134 check preload box
ALRT 129 check preload box
DITL 134 check preload box
DITL 129 check preload box
ICN# fat trash can check preload box
ICN# default application check preload box
Criticisms, comments, or additional suggestions encouraged. I also unset
the purgeable setting for the two System file ICON's, but I'm not
entirely sure that one doesn't have deleterious effects, but I can't see
why it would and I don't really want to have to swap the system disk back
in just to load one of those ICONs when I'm in dire straights.
Is anyone at Apple willing to defend the choices they made for the settings
used in the SE system disks actually shipped? By the way, you should
thank your favorite deity (or non-deity) that the Mac operating system is
designed in such a compartamentalized fashion so that non-68000 hackers
can still twiddle bits and actually accomplish something. Well done,
Apple!
--
Jeff Myers The views above may or may not
University of Wisconsin-Madison reflect the views of any other
Madison Academic Computing Center person or group at UW-Madison.
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It is also necessary to mark the STR# resource that contains the message asking you to verify putting the application in the trash. I don't remember the resource ID (if I only had a modem this wouldn't happen!) but I think that the message is in the highest STR# in the Finder's resource fork (ID 134?). When you check the preload box for default application, you might as well check preload for default document, since this gets used a lot. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Bob Heiney c60a-3eb@lemon.Berkeley.Edu c60b-hd@buddy.Berkeley.Edu "To stay young requires unceasing cultivation of the ability to unlearn old falsehoods."(Robert A. Heinlein) ---------------------------------------------------------------------
myers@uwmacc.UUCP (04/04/87)
> It is also necessary to mark the STR# resource that contains the > message asking you to verify putting the application in the trash. I > don't remember the resource ID (if I only had a modem this wouldn't > happen!) but I think that the message is in the highest STR# in the > Finder's resource fork (ID 134?). Ah, yes...problem is that I set trash warnings off, so I missed this one. Unfortunately, setting that STR# preload is going to load in a lot of other messages bundled under the same resource. > When you check the preload box for default application, you might as > well check preload for default document, since this gets used a lot. > Bob Heiney c60a-3eb@lemon.Berkeley.Edu No problem here, as preload is already set on that one...strange that they set it for one but not the other. -- Jeff Myers The views above may or may not University of Wisconsin-Madison reflect the views of any other Madison Academic Computing Center person or group at UW-Madison. ARPA: myers@vms.macc.wisc.edu UUCP: ..!{harvard,ucbvax,allegra,topaz,akgua,ihnp4,seismo}!uwvax!uwmacc!myers BitNet: MYERS at WISCMACC