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- I want to thank everyone who responded to the problem I posed
- of how to run System 7 from floppy-drive SEs (assuming enough
- memory). (I said I didn't want to buy everyone hard drives
- because I wanted people to continue to use the server for
- creation of documents, not go copying things from drive a to drive
- b, etc.)
- Most people said that, short of buying hard disks, the only
- possibility was to upgrade to the 1.4M floppies, assuming that
- THEY would be big enough.
- However, one person sent me just the solution I've been
- hoping for, and asked me to pass it along to the network.
- It shows signs of being one of the truly great inits! Because
- what it does is become almost the only init in your system folder
- (or cdev), and point the way to a folder on your server which
- holds all the other cdevs, inits, printer fonts, etc., etc.
- If you have Suitcase in that folder, and set it to OPEN SHARED
- suitcases, then you have access to however many fonts you
- want to put on! I attach it below, along with the original
- message from its creators.
- Just in playing around one morning, I was able to reduce
- the system folder by well over 100k.
- There are a few things which won't work with InitShare.
- Broadcast crashes. Haven't tried Public Folder. The
- things which write preference files back to themselves
- or to the "system folder" may get confused. So you'll
- have to do a little playing with it.
-
- Just the thing to amuse you network administrators stuck
- in the office during Xmas break when the network is quiet
- enough to fiddle with it (note this is being posted the
- day after Thanksgiving!)
-
- BUT IT'S GREAT. Do give it a try. And THANK YOU
- JAAP SNIJDERS.
-
- Jaap Snijders
- Dept. of Theoretical Chemistry
- Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
- Amsterdam, The Netherlands,
- Email: snijders@sara.nl
-
- } MAILGATE HASARA5 11/20/89
- v SNIJDERS@SARA.NL ccd@brownvm.bitnet 11/20/89 INITs etc on
- Server
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- Received: from VE1.LCN by SARA.NL for ccd@brownvm.bitnet; 20
- Nov 89 13:00 MET
- Message-ID: <$143908441S0219D19891120T100414.0001.Mail-VE>
- TO: ccd@brownvm.bitnet
- FROM: SNIJDERS@SARA.NL
- SUBJECT: INITs etc on Server
- DATE: 20 NOV 89 12:04:14
-
- Dear Clare,
- Seperately I have sent you INITShare which might solve the
- problems
- you mention on Infomac. We have written this INIT for exactly the
- situation
- you mention: two floppy systems with overcrowded System disks on
- a network
- with a AppleShare fileserver. We now have a folder on the server
- with all
- relevant cdev's and INIT's , while on the floppy's we have INITShare
- that
- points to this folder and makes them run at startup. Actually you can
- put
- more in this folder than INITs/cdev's, anything that is usually in the
- System
- Folder can be there PROVIDED it can be shared in the first place
- (meaning
- among other things that it doesn't write to its own file), you have to
- experiment to see what works and what doesn't. Always lock files in
- this
- shared folder.
- I have also included the sources for INITShare (which is PD). If you
- think
- of improvements let me know.
- By the way I am unsure how to submit this to Infomac, could you
- send it
- on my behalf?
- All the best,
- Jaap Snijders
- Dept. of Theoretical Chemistry
- Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
- Amsterdam, The Netherlands,
- Email: snijders@sara.nl
-
- } MAILGATE HASARA5 11/20/89
- v SNIJDERS@SARA.NL ccd@brownvm.bitnet 11/20/89 INITs etc on
- Server
-
-