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Article #33977Re: Do CDEVs work without Control Panel installed?
From: Ken McLeod
Date: Wed, 02 Nov 1988 10:55
Date: Wed, 02 Nov 1988 10:55
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In article <949@mace.cc.purdue.edu> ajq@mace.cc.purdue.edu (John O'Malley) writes:
>OK, here's a simple question. Do CDEVs like Vaccine work when they are
>installed on a hard disk that has no Control Panel installed?
Here's the simple answer: yes. Vaccine (and many others) are actually
INITs, with a 'cdev' interface for setting parameters. Once you've set
the parameters the way you want them, you can blow away the Control
Panel DA and they will continue to load at boot time in the normal way.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!ccicpg!felix!dhw68k!thecloud From: thecloud@dhw68k.cts.com (Ken McLeod) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Do CDEVs work without Control Panel installed? Message-ID: <14466@dhw68k.cts.com> Date: 2 Nov 88 10:55:58 GMT References: <949@mace.cc.purdue.edu> Reply-To: thecloud@dhw68k.cts.com (Ken McLeod) Organization: Wolfskill residence; Anaheim, CA (USA) Lines: 16