Do you like the way in System 7.0 that the Trash is no longer emptied on shutdown, and when new applications are fired up? I didn't. I also wanted to learn about AppleEvents, so I thought "Here is my chance". Dustbin Man, when running, just fires a continuous stream of events to the finder at five second intervals or so saying "Empty the Trash, Empty the Trash, Empty the Trash…" Thus, whatever is thrown in the Trash disappears for ever pretty soon thereafter. I prefer to be able to see how much empty space I really have on my disks than to EVER have the chance of recovering things I throw in the Trash…
Warning.
Thus, this is like a chainsaw. It's a powerful tool, but if you aren't careful while you are using it, you could lose something really important to you. Think carefully whether you want to use this utility at all, and if you decide you do, also think VERY carefully about what you throw in the Trash. The author of this program accepts absoultely NO responsibilty for any important programs or data that you may lose by through use of this program. Agreeing to absolve the author from any liability whatsoever is a condition of the use of this software. If you do not agree to this condition, I spefically DO NOT permit you to use this program.
Use.
This is a background only application which only works with System 7.0 and greater. To use it, simply drop it in your Startup Items folder, and it will run automatically when the machine is fired up. As it is a background only application, it is not shown in the Application menu. This also means it is tricky to quit it. ( As an aside, it will respond to 'quit' AppleEvents however, and so one way of turning it off is to say
close "Dustbin Man"
from the message box in Hypercard 2.1 or greater.) If you decide, perhaps after losing something you didn't want to lose, that you don't want it running any more on start up, just remove it from the Startup Items folder.
Distribution.
Because of the potentially dangerous nature of this application, if you pass on the application, please ALWAYS pass on this documentation too.
Otherwise, this is "Swapware". I'll let you have a free copy of this, if you will let me have a free copy of any (hopefully useful!) piece of software you have written or published. In the same spirit, compilers of collections of software, e.g. for publication on CD-ROM, may use this in such compilations provided that they supply me with a copy of any compilation this appears in. If you haven't written anything, but still want to use this, I'll fall back on the shareware idea, so please send me what you think it is worth (but not abuse if you lose something valuable!).
Address.
Swaps and other contributions can be sent to the author at the address below:
