clubmac@runx.OZ (Sydney University Macintosh Society) (12/19/86)
Today I was trying to install MiniWriter 1.2 with the Font/DA Mover into my friend's Hard Disk 20 System. In response, it alerted me to a "Serious Problem" and simultaneously blew the whole System file away, and from the look on my friend's face, I was only seconds from a similar fate. This has happened so many times before with other DAs that I must find the Font/DA Mover (oh yeah, version 3.2) guilty of macslaughter. Has anyone from Apple made any moves to detaching the resource accessories from the main system file? It seems reasonable that screwing around with a resource file (in this case, System) 575,000,000,000 times will result in a disaster of biblical proportions (or at least Cecil B. DeMille proportions) Why can't add-on resources be left outside the System file? For example, FONTs could be placed in a Fonts file (make it a System type file, like Clipboard file), DAs in a Accessories file, along with INITs. Let's have some real change, before people are committed to rubber-rooms. Jason Haines