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- From: bowman@reed.edu (Eric Bowman (bobo))
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.sys.mac.misc
- Subject: Re: Sys 7 versions of sys 6 apps?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug12.204300.19241@reed.edu>
- Date: 12 Aug 92 20:43:00 GMT
- References: <1992Aug12.185838.4159@spock.retix.com>
- Organization: Reed College, Portland, OR
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- In article <1992Aug12.185838.4159@spock.retix.com> tonyg@spock.retix.com (Tony "Salty Dog" Goulding) writes:
- >One is INITPicker (for selecting and changing the order of init loading
- >at boot time), the other is Launch (an icon dock for launching progs).
-
- Try Extensions Manager on ftp.apple.com. Though sometimes it's *very slow*
- (Anyone else notice this?)
-
- Aliases sound remove the need for Launch. Check out The AliasBOSS, a very
- useful program which will scan drives for files of type APPL (or anything else)
- and create aliases for them, putting them anywhere you want.
-
- (The AliasBOSS was on mac.binaries awhile ago, and is probably on sumex).
-
- later,
- bobo
- bowman@reed.edu
-