System 7.0 finder eliminates the need for Font/DA moverﾑexcept that it wonﾕt let you create new, empty suitcases. I like to keep my fonts in suitcases under System 7 because they take up less room than individual font files, they are easier to open with Suitcase II, and they are compatible with System 6. You can keep an empty suitcase around and copy it when needed, but Iﾕm always deleting the last one, or using my ﾒmasterﾓ empty suitcase. For all of these reasons, I threw together Simsonite one afternoon.
Simsonite is a program that makes it easy to create empty suitcases. Just put it in your Apple Menu under System 7, and every time you select it, it will create an empty font suitcase called ﾒEmpty Suitcaseﾓ on your desktop.
The program works under System 6, by the way. It creates an empty suitcase in the same folder as the application. Why anyone would want to do this is beyond me.
If you donﾕt find the name particularly funny and/or memorable (itﾕs supposed to sound like Samsonite), feel free to change the name to ﾒMake New Suitcaseﾓ or some such thing.
For the technically minded, the program just creates a resource file with the name ﾒEmpty Suitcaseﾓ and the type ﾒFFILﾓ and creator ﾒDMOVﾓ. Thatﾕs it. It has a bunch of code to sense whether itﾕs running under System 7 and to find the Desktop Folder, but otherwise itﾕs a real no-brainer.
This program is Freeware, and comes to you courtesy of ElseWare corporation, makers of CheckList, DataShaper, and Bar Code Kit. Any comments can be sent to:
