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Article #44836Re: INIT INIT
From: Jeff Meyer
Date: Fri, 05 Jan 1990 03:03
Date: Fri, 05 Jan 1990 03:03
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In article <1310@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> jow@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (Joel Wachman) writes:
>I saw a demo of some software from Silicon Beach about a year ago,
>and as the guy booted his mac (ie, before the demo) his inits showed
>up in this sort of window that allowed him to select which ones to
>run. Now, I've seen an init which allows you to bring up a list of
>your inits and select which ones to run, but that was not what this
>guy used. The software he had put all of the icons up on the screen,
>in rows of about 8 across. I think he could click on the ones he
>wanted to load, or just continue by default. I'm not sure.
This sounds a lot like Aask, the INIT manager from CE Software. It's
included in their MockPackage kit. Nice, but for the price I'd prefer
Microseeds Initpicker (or whatever they're calling it these days). And the
various freeware INIT managers have almost as much functionality as Aask
anyway.
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empathic, and very very very rarely telepathic."
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!rice!uw-beaver!fluke!moriarty From: moriarty@tc.fluke.COM (Jeff Meyer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: INIT INIT Message-ID: <13652@fluke.COM> Date: 5 Jan 90 03:03:03 GMT References: <1310@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> Sender: news@tc.fluke.COM Reply-To: moriarty@tc.fluke.COM (Jeff Meyer) Organization: The John Fluke Mfg. Co., Inc., Everett, WA Lines: 25