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I want to thank everyone who responded to the problem I posed
of how to run System 7 from floppy-drive SEs (assuming enough
memory). (I said I didn't want to buy everyone hard drives
because I wanted people to continue to use the server for
creation of documents, not go copying things from drive a to drive
b, etc.)
Most people said that, short of buying hard disks, the only
possibility was to upgrade to the 1.4M floppies, assuming that
THEY would be big enough.
However, one person sent me just the solution I've been
hoping for, and asked me to pass it along to the network.
It shows signs of being one of the truly great inits! Because
what it does is become almost the only init in your system folder
(or cdev), and point the way to a folder on your server which
holds all the other cdevs, inits, printer fonts, etc., etc.
If you have Suitcase in that folder, and set it to OPEN SHARED
suitcases, then you have access to however many fonts you
want to put on! I attach it below, along with the original
message from its creators.
Just in playing around one morning, I was able to reduce
the system folder by well over 100k.
There are a few things which won't work with InitShare.
Broadcast crashes. Haven't tried Public Folder. The
things which write preference files back to themselves
or to the "system folder" may get confused. So you'll
have to do a little playing with it.
Just the thing to amuse you network administrators stuck
in the office during Xmas break when the network is quiet
enough to fiddle with it (note this is being posted the
day after Thanksgiving!)
BUT IT'S GREAT. Do give it a try. And THANK YOU
JAAP SNIJDERS.
Jaap Snijders
Dept. of Theoretical Chemistry
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Amsterdam, The Netherlands,
Email: snijders@sara.nl
} MAILGATE HASARA5 11/20/89
v SNIJDERS@SARA.NL ccd@brownvm.bitnet 11/20/89 INITs etc on
Server
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Received: from VE1.LCN by SARA.NL for ccd@brownvm.bitnet; 20
Nov 89 13:00 MET
Message-ID: <$143908441S0219D19891120T100414.0001.Mail-VE>
TO: ccd@brownvm.bitnet
FROM: SNIJDERS@SARA.NL
SUBJECT: INITs etc on Server
DATE: 20 NOV 89 12:04:14
Dear Clare,
Seperately I have sent you INITShare which might solve the
problems
you mention on Infomac. We have written this INIT for exactly the
situation
you mention: two floppy systems with overcrowded System disks on
a network
with a AppleShare fileserver. We now have a folder on the server
with all
relevant cdev's and INIT's , while on the floppy's we have INITShare
that
points to this folder and makes them run at startup. Actually you can
put
more in this folder than INITs/cdev's, anything that is usually in the
System
Folder can be there PROVIDED it can be shared in the first place
(meaning
among other things that it doesn't write to its own file), you have to
experiment to see what works and what doesn't. Always lock files in
this
shared folder.
I have also included the sources for INITShare (which is PD). If you
think
of improvements let me know.
By the way I am unsure how to submit this to Infomac, could you
send it
on my behalf?
All the best,
Jaap Snijders
Dept. of Theoretical Chemistry
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Amsterdam, The Netherlands,
Email: snijders@sara.nl
} MAILGATE HASARA5 11/20/89
v SNIJDERS@SARA.NL ccd@brownvm.bitnet 11/20/89 INITs etc on
Server