System 7.0 finder eliminates the need for Font/DA mover—except that it won’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’m always deleting the last one, or using my “master” 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 “Empty Suitcase” on your desktop.
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If you hold down the Option key when you select Simsonite, it will create a DA suitcase. If you hold down any other key, it will display an about box.
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’t find the name particularly funny and/or memorable (it’s supposed to sound like Samsonite), feel free to change the name to “Make New Suitcase” or some such thing.
For the technically minded, the program just creates a resource file with the name “Empty Suitcase” and the type “FFIL” (“DFIL” for DAs) and creator “DMOV”. That’s it. It has a bunch of code to sense whether it’s running under System 7 and to find the Desktop Folder, but otherwise it’s fairly straightforward.
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:
