When Apple released the System 7.5 Upgrade they thought they were doing us a favor (or at least being consistent) by making the ﾒPower onﾓ key a ﾒPower offﾓ key, too. Thatﾕs actually a pretty good idea, (as are many of Appleﾕs ideas) except that some of us use the key for other purposes. It seems that Apple is in the habit of not giving us, the CASH-PAYING END USERS, a choice (like a Control Panel setting) of whether or not we want to use some of the features they feel they should include (like zoom rectangles in the Finder, but thatﾕs another story).
With ﾒNoShutButtﾓ you can disable the ﾒPower offﾓ key. You can re-enable it later, if you want. I came across a description of this hack on comp.sys.mac.system and have incorporated it into a simple use-it-and-forget-it type application. This is NOT an extension, because there is no reason to make it one. (And besides, the rumors are that with Copland soon(?) to be here, extensions as we know them may become a thing of the past.)
Feel free to distribute this package to all the usual places as long as you do not modify the program or documentation. Oh, yes, this does NOT apply to any service that makes money beyond the costs of distribution of the media on which the program resides, without my written permission. (This means YOU, Educorp, unless you are willing to fork over some of those bucks.) If ZiffNet wants to post it, Iﾕll happily exchange it for free access. If any publisher wishes to include this program on a
CD-ROM collection they may do so if I get a subscription and a copy of the CD.
Any bug reports, praise or renumeration should be sent to:
Jonathan Jacobs
2374 Euclid Hts. Blvd. #407
Cleveland Hts., OH 44106-2745
jxj24@po.cwru.edu
Dept. of Biomedical Engineering
Wickenden Building
Case Western Reserve University
Cleveland, OH 44106
Enjoy.
Version History.
0.9 First release. I tested it on a Centris 650 and Quadra 650 with and without the PPC upgrade card. Nothing blew up. But I have confidence that someone out there will manage to find a problem.
