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Article #771Re: Solution to the Network/Boot Disk/Font Problem?
From: Ben Cranston
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 1989 19:50
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 1989 19:50
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> We have a Mac network here (using MacJANET) and one of our biggest
> problems is having insufficient room on the boot disks we distribute
> to put anything more than a small selection of fonts and DAs.
At the MacWorld here in Washington one of the educational users described a
scheme where a Suitcase on the boot disk allowed the fonts and DAs to reside
on a central server machine. They had removed a critical resource from the
Suitcase file to prevent it from appearing in the Apple menu. If there is
interest I'll dig out my notes and post a reference...
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Sig DS.L ('ZBen') ; Ben Cranston <zben@umd2.UMD.EDU>
* Computer Science Center Network Infrastructures Group
* University of Maryland at College Park
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!ames!rex!uflorida!haven!umd5!zben From: zben@umd5.umd.edu (Ben Cranston) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.mac.programmer Subject: Re: Solution to the Network/Boot Disk/Font Problem? Summary: Modified suitcase to remote fonts and DAs Message-ID: <5065@umd5.umd.edu> Date: 28 Jun 89 19:50:07 GMT References: <570@levels.sait.edu.au> <1976@aucs.UUCP> Reply-To: zben@umd5.umd.edu (Ben Cranston) Organization: University of Maryland, College Park Lines: 13