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- Welcome is a simple application which allows you to edit
- the “Welcome to Macintosh.” message that is displayed when
- the Mac boots.
-
- Welcome is copyrighted, but free for non-commercial distribution
- and use. It may not be sold without the author's consent. Welcome
- comes with no warranty, use it at your own risk.
-
- Welcome offers you a standard dialog box with the current boot
- message and allows you to edit it. Some important points:
- 1. You can't place special characters (e.g. tabs or returns)
- in the text.
- 2. The text won't be word wrapped at boot time.
- 3. You can force the message to begin a new line by
- placing a slash ‘/’ in the message. The slash won't be
- displayed.
-
- Welcome edits the boot message from the currently open System
- file. Some virus detection programs might complain about Welcome's
- actions, if so you'll have to turn them off. GateKeeper and Disinfectant
- Init have no problem with Welcome (i.e. there is no need to turn either
- of these off before running Welcome). To edit the message on another
- disk you will have to first restart with that disk.
-
- If your boot message get corrupted, you can replace it completely
- by using ResEdit to copy the DSAT 0 resource from an original system
- disk.
-
- Bug reports, suggestions or any other comments should be sent (via
- email preferably) to:
- Michael Carlton
- 610 Wildcat Canyon Road
- Berkeley, CA 94708 USA
- carlton@cs.berkeley.edu
-
-
- Cheers,
- --mike
- December 12, 1990
-