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- From: boulter@coral.bucknell.edu (Jeff Boulter a.k.a The Monseigneur Bow-tah MacBoulter Spida)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
- Subject: Re: Wellcome message at startup
- Date: 28 Jan 1993 17:26:45 GMT
- Organization: Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA, USA
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- Mike Carlton (carlton@isi.edu) wrote:
- : In article <93022.110958JSC115@psuvm.psu.edu> JSC115@psuvm.psu.edu (Jeff Campbell) writes:
- : -In article <1993Jan21.130839.402@sgcl1.unisg.ch>, 89611628s@sgcl1.unisg.ch says:
- : -
- : ->Is there anybody here who could tell me how to change (with ResEdit) the
- : ->greeting message when u start ur Mac (Wellcome in a white box).
- : -
- : -I have used in the past a utility called "Welcome" which did just that.
- : -It is freeware but I forget where I found it. I've never had problems
- : -with it- it just patches the proper place in the system file.
- : -
- : -Jeff (JSC115@PSUVM.psu.edu)
-
- : In general, you cannot safely change the welcome message with ResEdit --
- : you can make it shorter if you're careful, you cannot make it any longer.
-
- : I wrote the program Welcome to change the message properly -- it involves
- : resizing a resource in the system file and moving some data around. As
- : Jeff states, Welcome is free (it was only an evening's hack), and is
- : available on sumex-aim in info-mac/util/welcome-editor.hqx, as well on
- : many other bulletin boards.
-
- : cheers,
- : --mike (carlton@isi.edu)
-
- Welcome is available by anonymous ftp to sumex-aim.stanford.edu in the
- directory /pub/mac/util.
- --
- ______________________________________________________________________
- Jeffrey Roy Boulter (AKA Monseigneur, Spidah, Bow-tah, MacBoulter, and
- oh yes, Jeff)
- boulter@coral.bucknell.edu
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