Day/Night Cursor replaces the spinning wristwatch in the Finders accompanying systems 6.0x and 4.2. On any occasion when the hands on the wristwatch would toll the time, you can watch the passing of the day as the sun rises, crosses the sky, sets, and night falls. Happily, the night is followed by a new dawn, and so on ad infinitum, or at least until your Mac is finished its task.
Day/Night Cursor is copyright 1990 by Jim Trudeau, 5 Broadmoor Drive, Cumberland Center, ME USA 04021. It is distributed for free under the Happiware system, which means if you like it, remember to smile. If you think it is worth the bother (and you live outside of Maine), send me a postcard of where you live. Pretty stamps are appreciated in this household. I can be reached on GEnie at JTRUDEAU2. Anyone may upload this little ditty to any bulletin board or electronic retrieval system, provided this documentation accompanies Day/Night Cursor. It may not be sold, nor may any charge be imposed for distributing it other than reasonable fees for copying that may be charged by user groups and the like, or charges for on-line time while downloading from electronic bulletin boards and networks.
To install Day/Night Cursor, use ResEdit. As always (and especially in ResEdit), work on a COPY of both Day/Night Cursor and the Finder you are changing. Open Day/Night Cursor in ResEdit, then select both the acur and the CURS resources (shift/click on both). When they are both highlighted, choose COPY from the Edit menu, or type command-C. Then close Day/Night Cursor. Still in ResEdit, open the Finder you wish to change. Once the Finder is open, choose Paste from the Edit menu, or type command-V. ResEdit automatically replaces the wristwatch with the moon phase cursor. Save the new Finder, quit ResEdit, and you are all done. Very simple. To see the new cursor, replace your current Finder with the revised version you just created. Then do something that takes time, like opening a big folder or copying a file. If you have two floppy disk drives, I have found the smoothest animation is while making a disk-to-disk copy in Finder 6.1.
