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- From: bazyar@teal.csn.org (Jawaid Bazyar)
- Subject: Re: Switch-It! Demo
- Message-ID: <bazyar.725608954@teal>
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- Organization: Colorado SuperNet, Inc.
- References: <9212290241.AA28147@deepthought.cs.utexas.edu>
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 06:02:34 GMT
- Lines: 42
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- badbunny@tfsp.saic.com (Brendan Hoar) writes:
-
- >I'd just like to be the first on csa2 to say.....
-
- >WAY COOL!
-
- >Thanks Jawaid et al. Now that I don't have the dreaded job of cleaning out my
- >/h1/icons folder so that Finder doesn't take 10 minutes to load (since its
- >already loaded...), I think I may be taking advantage of the desktop a whole
- >lot more. Er, to clarify (since I don't know exactly how to edit that... :(),
- >I'll only have to load finder ONCE per reboot instead of 1000 times between
- >applications. This is cool.
-
- >As usual, a couple of odd things:
-
- >In the demo version, you might want to remove the 'DO NOT COPY' etc message
- >from the about box. Don't want the AOL/Genie/etc people panicing and pulling
- >it, do you? Er...panicking?
-
- Hmm. Hopefully they'll notice the 'override' in the textedit box
- that pops up first :) And, everyone knows who I am, and who wrote
- Switch-It!.
-
- >BTW, I've had some strange behavior with the 10 minute time out...how is that
- >detected and when can it pop up that message? I've had ModZAP crash, but I
- >wasn't shift booted at the time, so maybe I should keep my mouth shut about
- >it...nevermind. :)
-
- Well, I'll refrain from giving would-be pirates the answer to your
- first question... it can pop it up any time a GetNextEvent is called
- after the timeout expires. As for your second- um, let me put it this way.
- soniqTracker has no problems with SI!. :-)
-
- >Keep Sequential Systems on their toes and get that product out FAST!
-
- Bah... they've been keeping _me_ on _my_ toes with it. :)
-
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