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In article <3185@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> chow@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Christopher Chow) writes:

>: [My Own Message]

>Well, you've missed a *big* point.  The wonderful thing about Suitecase is
>that you can:
>
>1.  Place resources (fonts, da's, snd's) in different files, i.e., not the
>	system file.
>
>2.  You get control over your system, in that you can activate and deactiate
>	fonts, da's, and sounds as you wish by opening and closing files.
>
>With inits since the advent of INIT31 you've got (1), but only if you put
>it in the System Folder, and you don't have (2).  Currently, the only way
>to get control over property (2) is to reboot. Rebooting takes a long time
>and is nowhere elegant.
>
>Or is it that you don't care at all about property (2)?

I don't believe I have missed anything.  (2) is basically N/A with
respect to INIT's.  Define INIT:  A routine or property that the user
wishes loaded AT BOOT TIME for the duration of his/her session.  INITs
that are not meant to be active throughout the whole session should be
provided with a toggle key stroke.  The fact that they do not is no
indication that Apple needs to write another inane manager; it is a
cue to INIT writers that they need to go the extra yard.

If anything, I feel that YOU have  missed the point.   The whole point
of having Suitcase is not  to activate or  deactivate anything.  It is
to increase the flexibility of your system by allowing the user to set
up "configurations"  that can be swapped  easily depending on the task
to be accomplished.  There is no point in "deactivating" a font -
there is a point in being able to swap one set of fonts for another.
The same holds for DA's.  INIT's are not this application specific (or
at least, none of the ones I've seen are - SmartQuotes is an
exception, but that is run-time toggle-able).

Jeffrey A. Hallett               (ARPANET:  hallett@ge-crd.arpa   
Software Technology Program       UUCP:     desdemona!hallett@steinmetz.uucp)
General Electric Corporate Research and Development

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