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- TYPE DISUNION RELEASE NOTES
-
-
- This is a one-dumb-job INIT (Extension). It does one very stupid job,
- then gets off the road. It patches _nothing_ so it's entirely safe to
- use in any Macintosh, System 7 or 6.
-
-
- What does it do?
-
- Type Disunion does this: at startup time, it deletes the Adobe Type
- Reunion file named "Type Reunion Data". This is the database ATR
- creates to generate heirarchical font menus. Type Disunion searches
- in the System Folder (for System 6 users) and the Prefernces Folder
- (for System 7 users). If "Type Reunion Data" is found in either of
- those folders, Type Disunion deletes it. If not, nothing happens, and
- Type Disunion removes itself from memory. Adobe Type Reunion
- generates a new copy of "Type Reunion Data" when it sees that none is
- present.
-
-
- Why does it do it?
-
- About a half-dozen times a year, I trace bad Mac flakiness to a
- corrupted copy of "Type Reunion Data". Every time, I do all the
- obvious stuff first, remembering too late to delete that pig.
- Consequently, I wrote this little INIT to kill it with each boot,
- assuring that it can never be corrupted for long.
-
-
- Installation...
-
- System 6: Drag Type Disunion into your System Folder.
-
- System 7: Drag Type Disunion _onto_ your System Folder. You will be
- asked if you want to put it in the Extensions Folder. You do.
-
- Type Disunion will execute with your next boot, and every boot
- thereafter.
-
-
- Special considerations...
-
- Because ATR will have to recreate "Type Reunion Data" with each boot,
- your boot times will be longer by an insignificant amount.
-
- If you use an INIT/Extensions manager, be sure to turn Type Disunion
- on. Take note that it should be loaded _before_ ATR. If it isn't, ATR
- won't notice it's without a copy of "Type Reunion Data" until you do
- something requiring fonts. No tragedy: it will just create the
- database then, rather than at boot time.
-
- Lastly, if you don't use ATR, this won't do anyting for you (grin).
-
-
- Very Best,
-
- Greg Swann
- 11/11/92