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Sam and Alastair Beadle <samnali@delfloria.deletethis.demon.co.uk>
wrote:

> OK I give up - someone tell me about Mac OS (7.5.7) extensions.

No, because there's no such OS as 7.5.7.

> After getting our Mac we had several clashes - some fiddling around and we
> got rid of all the problem ones. Now my daughter has got a new program
> that clashes with - guess what - our PPP extension - eek! So at the moment
> we have to start up, reset the extension (and virtual memory - it causes
> some of her games problems too) - then restart. THEN repeat it before we
> can use the internet.
> 
> So - the questions:
> 
> Is there any way of resetting all these things in one easy step - a script
> sounds good but the Extensions manager is not scriptable (as, I have
> found, are a lot of other programs and controls).

You don't need to use the Extensions Manager: you can move the relevant
files directly using the Finder (btw, have you tried a different PPP?
OT/PPP or FreePPP are pretty much as good as each other all other things
being equal); a script I've written to do a similar sort of job to this
looks like (stuff following).  I'm not sure about resetting VM.  have
you tried looking for some scripting extensions that might be able to
help with this?  Someone in comp.sys.mac.programmer might have a better
idea.

property gv_faxing_extension_List : {�
  "Schr�dinger's cat:Freezer:Global Village:GlobalFax", �
  "Schr�dinger's cat:Freezer:Global Village:Global Village Toolbox", �
  "Schr�dinger's cat:Freezer:Global Village:GV Address Book Engine"}

property gv_faxing_control_panel_List : {"Schr�dinger's
cat:Freezer:Global Village:TelePort"}

property gv_faxing_file_List : gv_faxing_extension_List & �
  gv_faxing_control_panel_List

set files_found_ok to checkForFiles()

(*if files_found_ok then
  display dialog "Found files"
else
  display dialog "Didn't find files"
end if*)

if files_found_ok then
  repeat with a_file_path in gv_faxing_extension_List
    set a_file to a_file_path as alias
    tell application "Finder" to move a_file to extensions folder
  end repeat
  repeat with a_file_path in gv_faxing_control_panel_List
    set a_file to a_file_path as alias
    tell application "Finder" to move file a_file to control panels
folder
  end repeat
  tell application "Finder" to restart
else
  display dialog �
    "I didn't move anything because one or more of the Global Village
files was missing"
end if

on checkForFiles()
  set files_found_ok to true
  repeat with a_file in gv_faxing_file_List
    try
      get info for (a reference to file a_file)
    on error
      display dialog "Couldn't find file " & a_file with icon 2
      set files_found_ok to false
    end try
  end repeat
  return files_found_ok
end checkForFiles


> Why does the extensions manager not control all of them? If I turn them
> all off and look in the extensions folder it is still full of stuff. Files
> like Apple Guide files and so on I can understand but many of them are
> real extensions!

I wish I knew why too, but I don't.

[snip]

Rowland.

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