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Tonto provides a way to hide applications from the casual user. You
configure a copy of Tonto for each application you wish to hide and
then you make the application invisible (using ResEdit, for example).
Tonto itself remains visible, with the application's icon. You rename
each copy of Tonto to match its original application's name. If the
original application is in the same folder as Tonto, you will need to
change Tonto's name slightly. For example, if the application were
"Microsoft Word", you might rename Tonto to "Microsoft Word 4.0".
If the user double-clicks on Tonto, it does nothing but launch the
original application. If the user double-clicks on a document from the
application, the Finder launches the invisible application directly,
without using Tonto.
To configure Tonto, first make a copy and work only with it. Launch
the copy of Tonto. Click on the "Build..." button and use the standard
techniques to select the application you wish to hide. Press the
"Done" button. Now double-click on the Tonto copy and make sure the
correct application gets launched.
If you need to reconfigure Tonto, hold down the mouse after you launch it.
Once Tonto is configured correctly, you should make the configuration
permanent by launching it again, holding the mouse down, and pressing
the "Perm" button. Thereafter, Tonto ignores the mouse when it is
launched, so the configuration cannot be changed.
At this point, you can use ResEdit to make the application invisible.
Tonto was written by Greg Coleman and greatly modified by Dale Talcott.
Tonto and its sources are dedicated to the public domain.
For more information, email to Dale Talcott, aeh@cc.purdue.edu.