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In article <52653@ti-csl.CSNET> martin@home.UUCP (Steven Martin) writes:
> It seems to me that the activation of CloseView is handled in the
> exact opposite of what would be convenient.
> 
> CloseView is the kind of utility that you would want to have off most
> of the time, but turn it on temporarily when you need it.   As it
> comes, you are forced to have it on when you boot, then must dig into
> the control panel to turn it off.  How did something so
> counter-intuitive make it into the System Release!

I think perhaps you're missing the point of CloseView.  It seems to me
that the primary purpose of CloseView (and of its earlier cousin Easy
Access) is to make the Mac usable by people who have significant
physical impairments of one sort or another.  CloseView is designed to
come up enabled _because_ people who really need it cannot use the Mac
easily (or at all) without it.  If one cannot read the Mac screen at its
standard 1:1 magnification, then it's _impossible_ to pull down the
Control Panel DA, hunt down the CloseView CDEV, and turn it on!
Take a look at the CloseView instructions in the System 6.0 manual...
they're written in oversized type so that the folks that really need
CloseView can see the installation instructions.  Nice touch, Apple!

If you need occasional magnification of a portion of the screen, I'd
suggest using one of the free "magnifying glass" desk accessories that
are floating around... they don't work exactly as CloseView does, but
they're an "on demand" tool rather than a "by default" aspect of the
system.
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