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From: raylau@dasys1.UUCP (Raymond Lau)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Init Manager, please
Summary: Abort loading of INITs
Message-ID: <2250@dasys1.UUCP>
Date: 17 Dec 87 03:28:37 GMT
References: <338@spectrix.UUCP> <22163@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>
Organization: The Big Electric Cat
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Maybe we don't need an INIT manager, but one thing that'll help out is some
routine which will put up a box at loading time if a certain key combo is held
down and allow the user to reequest that a certain INIT not be loaded.

This would be great for finding buggy INITs...saves the trouble of breaking
out floppies bec. the INIT crashes when booting from the HD, etc.

Someone mentioned that an INIT manager would be impossible/useless bec. it
would be loaded after INITs... recall that INITs are loaded by Apple's
INIT 31.  We as users can assume that Apple's 31 is relatively bug free.

It has also been mentioned that many INITs incl. shift sequences to abort
loading.  That's nice, but not all do!  And you can't decide which you don't
want loaded as many use the same sequence (shift).

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