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From: stearns@Apple.COM (Brian Stearns)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: F/Da Mover question.  Never seen this before!
Message-ID: <296@internal.Apple.COM>
Date: 7 Dec 88 18:06:34 GMT
References: <295@internal.Apple.COM>
Organization: Apple
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From article <295@internal.Apple.COM>, by stearns@Apple.COM (Brian Stearns):
> From article <32952@think.UUCP>, by ephraim@think.COM (Ephraim Vishniac):
>> [several good hints related to option-key features in Font/DA Mover 3.8,
>>  including that option-launching FDAM makes it come up in desk accessory
>>  mode instead of fonts mode.]
> 
> If you're moving a lot of desk accessories, add a resource of type LAYO, 
> id 129, to Font/DA Mover itself. (If you feel more comfortable putting it
> in your System file instead, that will work too.) If FDAM3.8 finds such a
> resource (it doesn't matter what it contains, if anything!), it will invert
> the defaults: DA mode if no option key; fonts if option key.
> 
> By the way, if it make you feel better, I really regret not adding
> disables of some sort for the "are you sure?" box, and the "Stuff added 
> under Multifinder may not appear until you restart" box. However, for the 
> adventurous at heart, I left the Macsbug symbols in: you can patch out
> the calls to AYSALERT (for the "are you sure?" box) in REMOVEDACCS
> and REMOVEFONTS, and the first call to DOALERT in COPYFONTS and COPYDACCS 
> (for the MultiFinder warning box). Of course, the usual caveats apply:
> don't do this to your only copy of FDAM3.8, please don't give the hacked
> version to unsuspecting naive users, etc. 
> 
> Disclaimer: Have fun, keep backups, and be a good sport.
> 
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