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In article <8812080811.AA26497@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>, MARKS@HDETUD53.BITNET ("Roger Marks, MARKS@HDETUD53.bitnet") writes:
> 
> I'd like to do something about the fact that the Mac Control Parameters
> are set to their default values each time I boot.  Actually, I don't mind it
> happening, as long as _I_ get to choose the defaults.  The question is how to
> get at them.  If they are stored in ROM, I give up.  But, if they are in some
> System file, then I ought to be able to get at them via ResEdit.  Does anyone
> have an idea of where to look?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Roger
> MARKS@HDETUD53  (Technical University of Delft, The Netherlands)


The Mac stores all of those parameters in Non-volatile RAM.  They are read
in at boot and are written out when changed.  A friend of mine who has a
Mac had his NVRAM go bad, so he wrote an INIT that reads them in from
the system folder and writes them out when they get changed.  I never sent
it out because it did not work with sys2.0/finder4.1 on the Sac (worked 
fine on the Mac).  But now that Spectre is out and most Sac-ers are using
4.0/5.3 anyway, I probably should send it out.  Its incredibly small, but
I don't know how to post Mac prgs to the net (and I don't currently have
access to the net from home).  Reply to me if you need it badly, otherwise
look for it on Genie, my BBS, or fnet (the FoReM network) soon.

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