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Article #24630Re: cdev craze (Was: Re: I Love Moire CDEV)
From: Ken Hancock
Date: Tue, 02 Feb 1988 18:34
Date: Tue, 02 Feb 1988 18:34
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In article <10070@santra.UUCP> jmunkki@santra.UUCP (Juri Munkki) writes:
>It would also be nice to be able to hide cdev's temporarily. I might
>want to hide Dimmer and some other rarely used init/cdev combinations
>so that often used cdevs would be visible. Editing the file names to
>achieve ordering and priority is a kludge.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Well of course it's a kludge. Unfortunately, most people don't write
things correctly the first time. If they're written correctly, order
really shouldn't matter -- and then instead of fixing them, they just
tell people to reorder it as a permanent fix instead of temporary...
Ken
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!ames!aurora!labrea!decwrl!decvax!dartvax!eleazar!isle From: isle@eleazar.Dartmouth.EDU (Ken Hancock) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: cdev craze (Was: Re: I Love Moire CDEV) Message-ID: <8072@eleazar.Dartmouth.EDU> Date: 2 Feb 88 18:34:10 GMT References: <887@xn.LL.MIT.EDU> <9350@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP> <10070@santra.UUCP> Reply-To: isle@eleazar.Dartmouth.EDU (Ken Hancock) Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH Lines: 18 Keywords: INITs, CDEVs, hacks