Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!dalcs!aucs!peter
From: peter@aucs.UUCP (Peter Steele)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Wanted:  Desktop Manager INIT from AppleShare
Message-ID: <1130@aucs.UUCP>
Date: 23 Jun 88 11:18:17 GMT
References: <1029@umbc3.UMD.EDU>
Organization: School of Computer Science, Acadia Univ., Nova Scotia
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in article <1029@umbc3.UMD.EDU>, chris@umbc3.UMD.EDU (Chris Schanzle) says:
 
> On several occasions people on the net have mentioned that terrific
> little INIT that comes with AppleShare (Desktop Manager if I recall
> correctly) that speeds up desktop operations by an order of magnitude
> or so.  Having a CMS SD60 nearly full (ok, ok, so I have 10 megs of
> digitized Star Wars sounds...), I'm seriously growing old while
> waiting for the desktop file to be updated - it's slowing me down to
> the speed of (*gasp*) floppies!  (Not all the time, of course...)

I have a Jasmine 80 so I'm growing old even faster than you! :-)
I've also read about this init and assumed it would be part of the
new system upgrade. That appears not to be the case. I think Apple
should make it legal to post this init so that we can all live
longer lives...



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