Re: INIT.CD file on binaries

[handel@inga1.acc.stolaf.edu (Peter F Handel)]

In article <CxwH60.AJ8@nntpa.cb.att.com> bird@nwsrs.nw.att.com (J. L. Walters) writes:
>I recently downloaded a file from the Apple binary newsgroup named
>INIT.CDA. It had no documentation and had a file type of Temporary
>Initialization File. I put it in the /Boot/System/System.Setup folder
>and booted. The result was the "Sound of One Hand Clapping." 

Sound of one hand clapping?

>There was
>nothing on the splash screen as I booted and nothing when I looked at
>the CDA menu after booting. 

Werd.  If the CDA was at fault, your system would have crashed after the
CDA was loaded, not right at boot.

>Does anyone have a clue as to what this
>file is supposed to do? 

All it does is place the "Visit Monitor" and "Memory Peeker" CDAs.  In
System 6.0.1, you can do the same think by checking "Enable Programmers
CDAs" in some control pannel.

The same effect can be acheived by pressing "#" at the * prompt.  To
get to the * prompt from the ] prompt, type "Call -151".

>I've deleted it from my HD for now and will
>await a version that tells me what it is supposed to do.

>I would mail the author directly, unfortunately, by the time it gets to
>my Apple it has lost all knowledge of where it came frome, etc.

What I do is just save all the file (description and binscii'ed program)
in the text file, because binscii is smart enough to know when it starts
and stops.
 
>Kind Regards,
>-- 
>
>		Joe Walters att!nwsrs!bird NW 31K14 (708) 224-7189
>		To know, and not to do, is not yet to know.

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