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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
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