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Re: ramblings about exploration of OS-Release 6.0 utilities on a rainy Sunday night.

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From: David W. Berry
Date: Mon, 18 Jul 1988 21:53
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In article <9334@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> earleh@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Earle R. Horton) writes:
>Oh, well, I'm a programmer, I'm paranoid, I have lots and lots of
>current backups.  Besides, I've been working with this disk for months
>since the last crash, and it's probably fragmented as all get-out,
>anyway.  *Initialize!*  Now I have a "Partition" button which
>supposedly will give me further options, and maybe even allow me
>(Please say it's true!) to partition my disk.  Oh, yuch.  It's for
>A/UX!  Sure I can partition my hard disk, but I can only make my HFS
>partition smaller, and create other partitions that I don't have a
>prayer of ever using.  (Me?  Use A/UX?  You're kidding, right?)  I
>want the ability to partition my hard disk into two HFS partitions,
>accessible from the Finder, and I suppose many other savvy "power
>user" types want the same thing.  I guess we're not getting it from
>Apple this time around.  Oh, well, initialize it to "Maximum
>Macintosh" and load all my stuff back onto it.  Sure runs faster with
	Actually, it could have multiple macintosh partitions created
by selecting custom and then removing the large existing partition 
and creating several new small ones.

>Earle R. Horton.  H.B. 8000, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 03755



Opinions:  MINE, ALL MINE! (greedy evil chuckle)

David W. Berry
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From: dwb@Apple.COM (David W. Berry)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: ramblings about exploration of OS-Release 6.0 utilities on a rainy Sunday night.
Keywords: nit-picker's delight
Message-ID: <14221@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 18 Jul 88 21:53:31 GMT
References: <9334@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU>
Reply-To: dwb@apple.apple.com.UUCP (David W. Berry)
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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