BlackHole II is a replacement for that monochrome, boring, standard Trash Can that keeps showing up uninvited in the lower right corner of your Mac's screen. Instead of trashing your unwanted files in an earthbound receptacle, you can now feed them what you hated the most, and IBM 80386 Just like with a normal Mac trash can, files don't actually disappear until you empty the receptacle - in this case more correctly referred to as Dumping the IBM. I created this because I've always believed that the IBM was the prefect computer to receive the trash no one wanted.
WARNING!
Switching over to an IBM 80386 trashcan requires the use of that dangerously powerful but wonderfully entertaining Apple utility, ResEdit. If you're not an expert with that program, edit only copies of your disks and files. Don't touch your original working set-up lest you make it an embarassingly non-working set-up. If you are an expert, I don't have to tell you to WORK ONLY WITH COPIES - you've already learned to do so through several painful experiences that may have led to episodes of self-flagellation and severe depression. Look at it this way - if you only work on copies nothing will go wrong.
INSTALLATION:
Here's how to install what you didn't want in the first place, an IBM.
Expert's instructions. These will be understandable only to one who has reached near godhood via a lifetime of contemplation, naps, seedless grape munching, and all-night hacking sessions followed by long hours cleaning grape juice out of key-switches.
1) Copy the resources you desire from the file IBM Trashcan into your Finder and System Files (ICN# goes with system and STR goes with Finder).
Mortal's instructions. These can be understood by your average IBM users.
1) Open the System Folder on the startup disk to which you want to add the IBM 80386, and make a copy of the Finder and the System File.
2) Open the file IBM Trashcan using ResEdit.
3) Select the STR resource in the file "IBM Tashcan" by clicking on it, and copy them to the clipboard. There are currently no 'cicn's cause I'm only running a Mac Classic, no color, boo hoo.
4) Open the Copy of Finder from ResEdit.
5) Paste the STR resource into the copy of your Finder (click the yes button to replace resources that by some very strange coincidence happen to have the same IDs as the ones you're adding - that's the whole idea of this exercise, after all). This part replaces all the messages as well as the menu and desktop name.
6) Now, go back and do the same with the ICN# resource and paste it into the System File. That replaces the actual icon.
7) Quit ResEdit, saving the changes you've made to the copy of your Finder along the way.
8) Drag your original Finder out of the System Folder.
9) Rename the Copy of Finder to Finder.
10) Reboot your Mac and look at the pretty star-eater you've invited to show up in the lower right corner of your screen.
11) Throw away the original Finder if you really want to, but 9 doctors out of 10 recommend saving it in another folder so you can switch back to the generic Finder if necessary.
PROBLEMS?
To recover, boot up with another disk, drag the Finder out of the System Folder on the disk you modified, and drag the original Finder back in. If the IBM 80386 was at fault, the problem will most likely disappear when you perform that incredibly simple procedure. If you've done some permanent damage with ResEdit, well, you were only working on a copy anyway (right?).
DISTRIBUTION
I downloaded this from somewhere and added color to it. If you like it then send 5 dollars or so to:
Roger Ford
C/O IBM Trashcan
241 Litchfield Ln.
Houston, TX 77024
Note: I did not write the vast majority of what is above, but I have tried my best to come up with a complete and usable system 7 version of the IBM Trashcan for ease of use. If you encounter any problems, tell me.
-Roger
• Parts of this document have been taken from The BlackHole II Instructions, written by Richard Johnson. BlackHole™ is a product of The UncopyrightedWare™. The BlackHole II was written by Richard Johnson.
