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Read Me First!
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・ R E S T A R T
a handy desk accessory
by Panic Hardware
・ Restart 1.1 is a very handy desk accessory, but it didn't start out that way. Actually, it started out
as a prank that we here at Panic Hardware were going to play on a good friend of ours, still a
Mac novice after a year with his Performa 475.
Ty and Chris were playing on John's (the friend) computer, trying to bring his 154 megs of doc-
uments under control. John still hasn't mastered the alias, or the Documents folder, so there
were no fewer than 10 copies of any one document, in various stages of progress.
We thought it would be funny (and we were right) if we put an alias of ・ Shut Down in his
Startup Items folder*. After trying this and laughing ourselves silly, we thought it would be
even funnier to put a restart command in his Shutdown Items folder. There were only two
problems with this. A) John only has System 7.1P6, which didn't include a Shutdown Items
folder. B) There was no restart command.
As a compromise, we decided to write the restart command and put it in his Startup Items folder.
This proved to be even funnier than having it in the Shutdown Items, because John couldn't
even begin to use his computer, let alone shut it down!
Then we realized that this command, imaginatively called ・ Restart, would be a useful thing to
have on our desktop or in the Apple menu, or both. So we kept a copy each for ourselves. Then
we thought that there might be other people out there (like you, obviously) who might like the
same thing.
So we decided to market it as shareware, for the low, low price of only five dollars! (Five dollars,
you may say, for one lousy desktop command? Well, yes, when you think of all the people who
regularly edit their System and Finder files. Trust me, you can screw up your menu commands
like that, (*snap*) and then what would you do?)
And here you are.
So do us a favor and send the five bucks, unless ・ Restart actually does save your butt, in which
case you should send $10. Only kidding. Here's the address.
Panic Hardware
1705 West Cowing Drive
Muncie, IN 47304-2330
Somewhere on your check, mention that it's for ・ Restart ("・" optional) because we take turns
writing software and need to know how to split up the money. For instance, Chris'll get most
of the dough from ・ Restart since he wrote most of the code and drew all the icons. Ty only
figured out which code to write. Oh, and he suggested making the icon blue. Blue! He's got a
Powerbook 520! He can't get color icons anyway! Pff! Blueノ
To use ・ Restart, simpy make an alias of it (if you want it on your desktop as well) and throw it in
the System folder. Your Mac will automatically put it in the Apple menu for you, as though you
didn't know where the Apple Menu Items folder wasノ
The alias can be renamed whatever you want (like "Panic Button" - we'd be flattered) so feel free.
Speaking of feeling free, feel free to pass this along to a friend. Just make sure you include
everything in the Panic Hardware folder (including the folder itself!) and don't charge for it.
(We did all the work, why should you get paid?) The best way to pass it along to a friend is to
copy the whole folder to their computer, and then put an alias of ・ Restart in their Startup
Items folder, but don't say we told you so!
C O M I N G A T T R A C T I O N S
Coming soon from Panic Hardware:
・ The Excel Business Manager - This is a handy little utility that will have Excel practically
running your business for you by automatically keeping track of everything you do. $20.
・ Panic Buttons - A little icon bar that contains not only ・ Restart, but a whole slew of other
menu functions that will be accessible as DA's independent of the finder. $15.
・ Power Panic Buttons - Same as Panic Buttons, but as a plug in for the Powerbook Control
Strip. $10.
・ And much, much more!
(* It should be noted that the original "・ Shut Down in the Startup" idea came from David Pogue
and Joseph Schorr's mega-tome, Macworld Mac & Power Mac Secrets, 2nd Ed.)
V E R S I O N H I S T O R Y
0.5 (15 Jan, 1995) - Wrote the darn thing, called ・Restart (no space between "・" and "Restart") in
John's basement, tinkering until 4:30 a.m. just to get it to work.
1.0 (15 Jan, 1995) - Tinkered some more, drew the icons, all gray but essentially the same. Ty
suggests blue but is shot down because a) he hasn't got a color Mac, and b) we
were going for the recessed switch look. Chris stays up until 6:30 writing the
・Restart read me. Also contemplates installing ・Restart in both Ty's Startup and
Shutdown Items folders, but thinks better of it. Instead, wakes Ty the following
morning by waving a life-sized cardboard cutout of Captain Picard over Ty's bed
and yelling "You are late for bridge duty! You are late for bridge duty!"
1.1 (17 Jan, 1995) - Chris tinkered a lot more, made the recessed part of the icon blue (Ty was
appeased) and took out the call to the FinderShutdown routine, cutting restart
time. Rewrote the Read Me file, renamed the whole thing ・ Restart (with a
space) to actually put it before ・ Shut Down in the Apple menu. Called it done,
for now. New version to accompany Panic Buttons, most likely, though what
difference does it really make? Best to get it now, in case Panic Buttons doesn't
work right until 1997 after we've rewritten everything to work with System 8ノ