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- Holistic Sofa
-
- by Alan Keahey GEnie: A.KEAHEY
- 151 Yale Ave. internet: tkeahey@cs.indiana.edu
- Winnipeg, Manitoba
- Canada R3M 0L1
-
- A holistically studly program to solve the paradox of the
- sofa and the staircase as detailed in "Dirk Gently's
- Holistic Detective Agency" by Douglas Adams.
-
- Version 0.82 08/09/92 - Initial release
- Version 0.91 08/30/92 - Fixed potentially fatal memory manager probs
- - Better stair drawing routine
- - A surprise
-
- Please keep all of the files that Holistic Sofa comes with bundled
- together when passing this program on to others.
-
- There is also an AfterDark module version of HolisticSofa, but this
- package was provided for those who don't own a copy of AfterDark, or
- who are running older and incompatible systems.
-
- This package contains 2 versions of Holistic Sofa: an application and an
- FKEY. I'm going to assume that you don't need my help in running the
- application, but the FKEY version is a little trickier. In order to run
- the FKEY version, you must first install it as detailed below. It can
- then be invoked at any time from any place by holding down the Command
- and Shift keys and pressing '6'.
-
- Although FKEYs have faded from the limelight somewhat in recent years
- (well OK, they never really were in the limelight to begin with), they
- remain as one of my favourite utility formats. While this FKEY doesn't
- allow for auto-activation, it also doesn't suffer from INIT conflicts.
- One of the problems with FKEYs is that they require installation by the
- user. Fortunately this is not at all difficult to do, there are three
- ways (that I can think of) to install FKEYs in Systems 6.x and earlier:
-
- 1) Use Suitcase or Juggler to load the FKEY. I know this works with
- Suitcase, and it *should* work with Juggler, but I can't guarantee it.
- If anyone has problems with the title screen not appearing I'd like to
- hear about it. If you don't have one of these programs, you should.
- Absolutely indispensable.
-
- 2) Use one of several available PD/Shareware FKEY installers, 'FKEY
- Manager' by Carlos Weber comes to mind. These should be available
- through the usual online services and user groups. The same disclaimer
- applies to these as with Juggler above, Holistic Sofa uses various
- resources which these programs may not copy from the distributed file.
-
- 3) Use ResEdit to install it.
-
- First of all, I should give you the tired old warning that always
- accompanies ResEdit instructions, always work with a backup copy of any
- file that you will be working with in ResEdit. (In fact this a good idea
- for all of your files all of the time). Having said that, I realize that
- no one (myself included) actually heeds this caution until *after*
- they've ruined their only copy of Excel the day before the big budget
- presentation is due.
-
- To load the FKEY, start ResEdit and open the file 'Holistic Sofa FKEY'.
- Double click on FKEY, select the FKEY 'Holistic Sofa', and choose Copy
- from the edit menu. Now open your system file and choose Paste from the
- edit menu. If you want to assign a different key combination to the
- FKEY, just click on the FKEY 'Holistic Sofa' and select Get Info from the
- menu. Type in a number in the ID field from 5 to 9, or 0 (FKEYs 1
- through 4 are reserved by Apple), this number will be the number you
- press in conjunction with the Command and Shift keys to invoke Holistic
- Sofa.
-
- Now select the 2 PICT resources in the 'Holistic Sofa FKEY' file. Copy
- them and then paste them into the system file, making sure to assign
- them a unique ID number not already being used in the system (any number
- will do, as long as you don't alter the names of the PICT resources).
-
- Now close the system file, saving the changes when asked.
-
- SYSTEM 7 USERS: You can also install the FKEY by dragging it (or an
- alias of it?) to the Apple Menu Items folder. Unfortunately the Command
- key combination to invoke the FKEY doesn't seem to work when this is
- done. The methods described above should work fine under 7. There may be
- other ways of installing the FKEY under 7, but I don't have regular
- access to a 7 machine to try them out. 7 runs on my Mac Plus about as
- fast as a special senate investigation on the effects of procrastination
- in special senate investigations.
-
- So long, and thanks for all the fish. (Or words to that effect)
-