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Re: At Ease

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From: Rob Trevor
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 03:59
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In article <BuByKp.3x9@taligent.com>, rmh@taligent.com (Rick Holzgrafe)
wrote:
> 
> ...
> I was going to write something of the sort myself and sell it fairly cheaply,
> but I see no reason to compete with Apple system software. I've seen At Ease;
> it's pretty nice and I haven't thought of any important ways to improve on it.
> 
> -- Rick Holzgrafe, a member of the Taligentsia
>    Rick_Holzgrafe@taligent.com
>    rmh@taligent.com

Is it at all scriptable?  (I currently have my kids booting up my home
system with a floppy and stripped down Sys 7.  This puts them into a
customised HyperCard stack.  This stack isn't too fancy, but it does send a
'quit' to the Finder and uses some externals to change the bit depth of the
main monitor to correspond to the requirements of the particular
educational game they are starting up, to check that the right CD is loaded
for 'A Silly Noisy House' and to change the 'name' file for Kieran, etc.  I
can't expect a lot from them since the two oldest have just turned 4 and
6.)

Or would I just use it as a way of letting them start up the machine and
click on 'their' button to boot the HyperCard stack?


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