On Sat, 30 Jan 1999, Sean-Paul Rees wrote:

> On Sat, 30 Jan 1999, Colin Wood wrote:
> 
> > if you want to go a step farther, throw out the Finder.  move the Booter
> > to the System Folder.  change it's type and creator to 'MACS' and 'FNDR'
> > (actually, i'd suggest seeing what the Finder's type and creator are,
> > since i may be remember it incorrectly).  you'll probably have to rename
> > the Booter to Finder as well.
> > 
> > the next time you reboot, you'll go into the booter instead of the finder.
> > if you don't really want to look at the booter, you can set it to autoboot
> > on a 0 second delay.
> 
> What a very curious idea :) Ingenious actually.

Actually, if I remember norton's trick correctly, you can actually get
away with putting a system file and your application (the booter, in this
case) in the root level.  No system folder, no finder, etc.  I'm not sure
what versions of MacOS that works for, though.


Later,
David

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