HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: carlton@isi.edu (Mike Carlton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Wellcome message at startup
Date: 25 Jan 93 19:51:24 GMT
Article-I.D.: venera.23278
Reply-To: carlton@irl.isi.edu (Mike Carlton)
Organization: USC-Information Sciences Institute

In article <93022.110958JSC115@psuvm.psu.edu> JSC115@psuvm.psu.edu (Jeff Campbell) writes:
-In article <1993Jan21.130839.402@sgcl1.unisg.ch>, 89611628s@sgcl1.unisg.ch says:
-
->Is there anybody here who could tell me how to change (with ResEdit) the
->greeting message when u start ur Mac (Wellcome in a white box).
-
-I have used in the past a utility called "Welcome" which did just that.
-It is freeware but I forget where I found it.  I've never had problems
-with it- it just patches the proper place in the system file.
-
-Jeff (JSC115@PSUVM.psu.edu)

In general, you cannot safely change the welcome message with ResEdit --
you can make it shorter if you're careful, you cannot make it any longer.

I wrote the program Welcome to change the message properly -- it involves
resizing a resource in the system file and moving some data around.  As
Jeff states, Welcome is free (it was only an evening's hack), and is
available on sumex-aim in info-mac/util/welcome-editor.hqx, as well on
many other bulletin boards.

cheers,
--mike (carlton@isi.edu)
From: derek@sherlock.oas.uci.edu (Derek Chee)
Subject: TeachText creator/word processor
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Organization: University of California, Irvine
Date: 27 Jan 93 21:23:09 GMT

How does one create TeachText documents with embedded pictures in it?
Such as the TeachText document that came with System 7.0 and 7.1
(the solid as a rock one or whatever it was).  I've heard that you
have to use ResEdit to do it, but is there a dedicated program/word
processor that I can use to creator the files?

Thanks for any help.

-- Derek

--
_____________________________________________________________________________
Derek Chee                           | America Online: Exter
Office of Analytical Studies         | Internet: dchee@uci.edu
University of California, Irvine     |           exter@aol.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: Meessen@marvax.IN2P3.fr (Meessen Christophe)
Subject: Looking for Digital logic simulation
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.misc
Organization: Centre de Physique des Particules de Marseille
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 09:01:51 GMT

Does any one know where I could find the latest version of Digital logic
Simulation by Brian Rauchfuss.

The version I have now is 2.5 and is dated 1986 !

It was a shareware product.

Could somebody suggest a similar program. It alows to design a small logic
circuit and to test it.

We would like to use it for a student course.

Please respond through EMail to Meessen@marvax.in2p3.fr.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: eps@futon.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
Subject: Re: Printing to Postscript file
Reply-To: eps@cs.sfsu.edu
Organization: San Francisco State University
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1993 03:10:26 GMT

In article <1993Jan26.194208.1645@isunix.cdx.mot.com>
	Jensen_C@msm.cdx.mot.com writes:
>Is there any way that I can get to the postscript output that is being sent to
>a printer?  I want to save it as a file, ftp it over to my Unix machine and
>print it from there.  That printer is much faster and does double sided
>printing.  I'd like general solution that I could use with any/all
>applications.  Is something like a psuedo printer available that just creates a
>file of the postscript commands?

The Apple LaserWriter driver can do this.  If you're running
6.0.8 or 7.x, click the Destination: PostScript(R) File radio
button.  If you have an earlier system, read
	info-mac/tips/generating-postscript.txt
available through anonymous FTP or gopher from
sumex-aim.stanford.edu, or by FTP from one of the Info-Mac mirror
sites (e.g. wuarchive.wustl.edu:~ftp/mirrors/info-mac/...) for
the whole story on this topic.

					-=EPS=-
From: eagle@silver.lcs.mit.edu (Chip Benowitz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: "Swiss Army Knife" request...
Date: 28 Jan 1993 15:17:06 -0600
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu


*************************************************************************
*I am starting a list for all those things that do more than you expect *
*and you just can't live without. I have seen stuff quoted as "The Swiss*
*Army Knife of <topic>", such as THINK C of compilers, or The Macintosh *
*Bible of books. If you have some great book/saftware/hardware/system/? *
*that you have or use and you think it is wonderful, please tell me at: *
*<Chip_Benowitz@fourd.com> and winners will be posted to c.s.m.announce.*
*************************************************************************
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: a-kraus@uiuc.edu (Albert L. Kraus)
Subject: 2mvram = faster 16bit display ?
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.misc
Organization: PES
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 14:25:01 GMT

I have 1m vram and Iwould like to know if my diplay faster in 16 bit mode
if I upgrade to 2meg vram ?

Thanks!
Have a nice day!
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: jwells@netcom.com (Court Jester)
Subject: Delete Countdown of Trash
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 20:02:30 GMT

Is there a way to prevent that pop-up box that shows how many
items are left to be deleted from showing up when "Empty Trash"
is selected? It's annoying when, by the time the box appears
completely, there's only 1 or items left anyways. (This is in
System 7.1)

Thanks for any tips. =)

-- 
     || (||)  The Court Jester               "Citizens of the planet
     ||       The House of Ramalon    \    /  Earth...  We bring you
  () || ()    Long live The Leader!    \  /   greetings, and we come
     ||                                 \/    in peace."
(||) ||       jwells@netcom.netcom.com       "We have returned....!"
From: genzuk@mizar.usc.edu (Michael Genzuk)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: PB Newsgroup
Date: 25 Jan 1993 09:07:28 -0800
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Distribution: na
NNTP-Posting-Host: mizar.usc.edu

I have read numerous articles on the pros and cons of a Mac PB Newsgroup.
This debate has gone on for a long time.  I have consistently read the
Laptop Newsgroup and seen the overwhelming number of articles dealing with
PC notebooks.  And I have no problem with that.  But we deserve our own
home as well.  When I have posted questions about my PB 180 in that group,
or in the mac.hardware group as well it seems to get overshadowed by other
issues.  I think it is time to deal exclusively with the Powerbook audience.
Especially with the expansion of the Powerbook family.

One vote for a new newsgroup

Michael at USC
From: toge@kekvax.kek.ac.jp (Nobu Toge)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Capturing Menus
Date: 22 Jan 93 04:08:49 GMT
Organization: KEK

In response to blumenau@pajaro.berkeley.edu (Trevor I. Blumenau),
chuck@gte.com (Chuck Hoffman) in chuck-210193105206@132.197.9.137
wrote -

> I use Flash-It v2.2 from Nobu Toge.  At Stanford, I think, used to be 
> with the SLAC group, but recently changed.
> . . . . .
> Nobu, are you out there?

I'm right here.  My sufrace mail address is still valid, because the
postal people keep forwarding the stuff.  Or, one may use

2425B Channing Way, Suite #314
Berkeley, CA 94704-2209

Electronically, when someone wants to contact me, please e-mail to
me at  76334.650@compuserve.com as noted in the doc or,
n.toge@applelink.apple.com.  I'd like not to abuse accounts on my
ex-(or present) employer's facility, since this shareware thing is
a totally private one.

- Nobu Toge (now at Nat'l Lab for High Energy Physics, Tsukuba, Japan)

#include <StandardDisclaimers.h>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: scs8@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Sebastian C Sears)
Subject: Help with EasyKeys 1.5
Reply-To: scs8@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Sebastian C Sears)
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 19:14:59 GMT


	I am trying to figure out a way to get EasyKeys to start-up something
	other than the actual application I am using. When I use my version of
	MacKermit, I start it up (i.e. what's under the Apple Menu) byu double-
	clicking on the settings file. This starts up MacKermit with my
	personalized settings already loaded up, so I don't have to do it 
	myself each time. However, I can't get EasyKeys to allow me to assign
	a key-combination to start up that settings file, only to start up the
	actual application, which then forces me to load my settings myself 
	each time :-(. I have tried changing the setting file type to APPL,
	setting up EasyKeys, then changing the file type back, but that doesn't
	work.

	If anyone has any ideas on that, please e-mail 
	scs8@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu or post if you think other people care.

	Thanks,
-------
"This is where I wanna sit and buy you a drink someday." - Temple of the Dog
Sea-Bass Sears --> scs8@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu --> DoD#516 <-- |Stanley, ID.|
'79 Yamaha XS750F -- '85 Toyota 4Runner -- Perception Corsica  |  NYC, NY.  |
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: vi for the Macintosh
From: scasterg@waltham.columbus.oh.us
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 93 22:07:13 -0500
X-Mailer: rnMac Buggy, I mean Beta, Test Version

>I am looking for a "vi" editor for the Macintosh.

Why?

Is it important that it be vi, or just a good text editor?

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: bcombs@wixer.cactus.org (Brian Combs)
Subject: Re: PC boards for the Mac
Organization: Real/Time Communications
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 19:46:51 GMT


Orange Micro (714-779-2772) makes Mac386.  I believe that's what you're
asking about.

Brian
-- 
Real Programmers don't comment their code.   |  Brian Combs   Austin, Texas
If it was hard to write,                     |  bcombs@wixer.cactus.org
It should be hard to understand.             |
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: dbtdxc@ARCO.COM (David Chapin)
Subject: Re: Delete Countdown of Trash
Organization: ARCO Oil and Gas Company
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 22:42:41 GMT

In article <1993Jan27.200230.24741@netcom.com>, jwells@netcom.com (Court Jester) writes:
> Is there a way to prevent that pop-up box that shows how many
> items are left to be deleted from showing up when "Empty Trash"
> is selected? It's annoying when, by the time the box appears
> completely, there's only 1 or items left anyways. (This is in
> System 7.1)
> 
> Thanks for any tips.

Two ways: 1) Hold option key down when you select "Empty Trash"
             from the "Special" menu;
          2) Do a "Get Info" on the Trashcan. Uncheck the box
             that says "Warn before emptying". Unless you change
             it back, it will stop warning you with that annoying 
             message.

   David Chapin
   dbtdxc@er.arco.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: HideAlways 1.0
From: <CTCOLE@MTUS5.BITNET>
Date: Friday, 22 Jan 1993 13:14:50 EST
Organization: Computing Technology Services, Michigan Technological Univ.

Hello out there...

Could anybody e-mail me a copy of HideAlways 1.0?  I had that version, but
foolishly trashed it (and overwrote the deleted file) when I got HideAlways
2.0.  I don't really care for 2.0's "Hide (Application) Always" command and
would like to go back to version 1.0.


Thanks!
Christopher Cole
ctcole@mtu.edu
From: erh0362@tesla.njit.edu (Elliotte Rusty Harold)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: New Virus Alert
Date: 23 Jan 93 22:00:30 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology

In article <C17vKv.E0o@demon.co.uk>, pettsj@visigoth.demon.co.uk (James Petts) writes:
> ***** VIRUS ALERT ********** VIRUS ALERT ********** VIRUS ALERT *****
> I just picked up a new virus alert from AppleLink (via somebody else).

    According to who?  What is the basis for this alert?  Has anyone reputable 
confirmed it?  And even if someone has just what are we supposed to do about it 
anyway?  This message provides NO useful information.

    Please don't pass on unconfirmed rumors about new viruses.  If 
there is detailed information available then provide it.  Otherwise stay quiet. 
If you have reason to believe you've discovered a new virus (which I gather 
from your post you haven't) then you need to privately discuss the possibility 
with local gurus and if they agree with you (or if you are the local guru) then 
you need to talk with the appropriate anti-virus experts.  On the Internet that 
means particularly John Norstad (j-norstad@nwu.edu) and Chris Johnson whose 
E-mail address I don't have handy but is probably in the GateKeeper docs.
If they confirm the virus, then they will send a message to 
comp.sys.mac.announce.  Otherwise all that happens is useless 
paranoia gets spread.

Elliotte Rusty Harold		Department of Mathematics
elharo@shiva.njit.edu		New Jersey Institute of Technology
erh0362@tesla.njit.edu		Newark, NJ 07102
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: winkels@lri.jur.uva.nl (Radboud Winkels)
Subject: Re: Superclock 4.0.2 crashes SE
Organization: Social Science Informatics
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 12:59:24 GMT

I have problems on a Classic with system 6.0.7.
Not memory error, but starts complaining about CoProcessor all of a
sudden??!!??
Clashes with AutoDoubler 1 and/or Gatekeeper 1.2.7 as well it seems.
Everything is pretty messed up.
Can anybody tell me how to clear Parameter Ram on a Classic with system
6.0.7? Maybe that helps. Get address errors as well now...

Radboud

--

    \\//    _    ____  _     Radboud Winkels
    //\\   | |  |  _ \| |    Dept. of Computer Science & Law
    \\//   | |  | |_| | |    University of Amsterdam
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: raffuj@rebecca.its.rpi.edu (Jose Raffucci)
Subject: Error 25?
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 13:49:20 GMT

  Does anyone know what an error type 25 means?  The machine freezes up, 
and puts up an "Unexpected error in application 'Unknown'".
could this be a virus or something?  The machine has been checked with
disinfectant 2.9 and came up clean.               

-hOz

-- 
Jose Raffucci  raffuj@rpi.edu  (518) 276-4810  "I don't like macs, I just    // 
Lighting Research Center, RPI, Troy, NY 12810   have to program them"      \X/
From: iscjcw@uccvma.ucop.edu (Jerry Wilcox)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Is MacTutor still alive?
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.programmer,comp.sys.mac.comm
Date: 27 Jan 1993 21:06:35 GMT
Organization: University of California, Office of the President
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: ajax.ucop.edu

In article <1993Jan27.172801.19582@athena.mit.edu>, awmin@athena.mit.edu
(Art Min) wrote:
> 
> MacTutor has become MacTech. 
> 
> For those who want the applelink addressses:
> 
> Orders, Circulation, and customer service: MT.CUSTSVC
> Editorial: MT.EDITORIAL
> Ad Sales: MT.ADSALES
> Programmers Challenge: MT.PROGCHAL
> 
> GENERAL: MACTECHMAG <<<<<<<<<<<  I guess the important one.
> 
They also have accounts on Compuserve, internet, AOL, and GEnie. Below is a
list from the latest issue:

Compuserve:
Orders, Circulation and Customer Service: 71333,1063
Editorial:71333,1065
Ad Sales: 71552,172
Programmers Challenge: 71552,174
General: 71333,1064

Internet:
Press Releases: pressreleases@xplain.com
Orders, Circulation and Customer Service: custservice@xplain.com
Editorial:editorial@xplain.com
Ad Sales: adsales@xplain.com
Programmers Challenge: progchallenge@xplain.com
Accounting: accounting@xplain.com
Marketing: marketing@xplain.com
General: info@xplain.com

America Online: all departments MACTECHMAG

GEnie: all departments: MACTECMAG

There is a request in the editorial for folks on the internet to please use
the internet addresses rather than the applelink addresses because of the
50 cent per message surcharge for internet messages received via Applelink.

-----------
Jerry Wilcox - iscjcw@uccvma.ucop.edu
All opinions expressed are MINE -- I'd have a different job if the
University wanted me to speak for it.
From: sjgavula@css.itd.umich.edu (Susan Gavula)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: International Font and Documentation
Date: 28 Jan 1993 17:20:51 GMT
Organization: University of Michigan ITD Consulting and Support Services
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: stimpy.css.itd.umich.edu


I am looking for the public domain international font
and its documentation.  I have looked at the archives at
umich and found the font but not the documentation.  Please
help if you know where to find it.

Please email responses,

thanks for any help,

Susan
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: matt@wardsgi.med.yale.edu (Matt Healy)
Subject: Re: ResEdit
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.misc
Organization: Yale University--Genetics
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 20:26:22 GMT

oops! Mistyped that ISBN 0-938151-75-4 from Peachpit Press. 					

Matt Healy
"I pretend to be a network administrator; the lab
 net pretends to work!"

matt@wardsgi.med.yale.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: millia@athena.cs.uga.edu (David W. Millians)
Subject: WANTED: Quicktime Developer's CD
Organization: University of Georgia, Athens
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 14:17:18 GMT


I am looking for a copy of the developer's CD that includes the QT movie
by the Residents of them performing 'Benny the Bump.' This is not avail-
able elsewhere, and I am a very retentive person when it comes to collecting
the Residents. Alternatively, if anybody wants to back it up for me on disks,
I would appreciate that. Of course, it is 40 megs :)  
Anyway, please e-mail me. C'mon, you guys get new ones every month. Surely
somebody's got an old CDROM with a copy of it....
Thanks in advance...
-- 
David W. Millians. millia@athena.cs.uga.edu or @moe.coe.uga.edu
75 more days until the Braves get to kick some more NL butt.
[Baseball] is a game with increasingly heightened anticipation of
increasingly limited action. John Irving, "A Prayer for Owen Meany"
From: boulter@coral.bucknell.edu (Jeff Boulter a.k.a The Monseigneur  Bow-tah MacBoulter Spida)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Wellcome message at startup
Date: 28 Jan 1993 17:26:45 GMT
Organization: Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA, USA
NNTP-Posting-Host: coral.bucknell.edu
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]

Mike Carlton (carlton@isi.edu) wrote:
: In article <93022.110958JSC115@psuvm.psu.edu> JSC115@psuvm.psu.edu (Jeff Campbell) writes:
: -In article <1993Jan21.130839.402@sgcl1.unisg.ch>, 89611628s@sgcl1.unisg.ch says:
: -
: ->Is there anybody here who could tell me how to change (with ResEdit) the
: ->greeting message when u start ur Mac (Wellcome in a white box).
: -
: -I have used in the past a utility called "Welcome" which did just that.
: -It is freeware but I forget where I found it.  I've never had problems
: -with it- it just patches the proper place in the system file.
: -
: -Jeff (JSC115@PSUVM.psu.edu)

: In general, you cannot safely change the welcome message with ResEdit --
: you can make it shorter if you're careful, you cannot make it any longer.

: I wrote the program Welcome to change the message properly -- it involves
: resizing a resource in the system file and moving some data around.  As
: Jeff states, Welcome is free (it was only an evening's hack), and is
: available on sumex-aim in info-mac/util/welcome-editor.hqx, as well on
: many other bulletin boards.

: cheers,
: --mike (carlton@isi.edu)

Welcome is available by anonymous ftp to sumex-aim.stanford.edu in the
directory /pub/mac/util.
--
______________________________________________________________________
Jeffrey Roy Boulter (AKA Monseigneur, Spidah, Bow-tah, MacBoulter, and
		     oh yes, Jeff)
boulter@coral.bucknell.edu

"It's hard to work in a group when you're omnipotent."
						--Q (Star Trek TNG)
		       _
Monseigneur           |-      M   M  OOO  TTT DDD
	           /\/ \/\    MM MM O   O  T  D  D
Minister of       / /vvv\ \   M M M O   O  T  D  D    WE WILL ASCEND!
Moderation 	 / /     \ \  M   M  OOO   T  DDD
From: hodgesc@prism.CS.ORST.EDU (Christopher Hodges)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Getting Unix files onto Mac
Date: 22 Jan 93 23:19:24 GMT
Article-I.D.: flop.1jpvdsINN7t
Distribution: usa
Organization: CS Dept, Oregon State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: prism.cs.orst.edu


	Hello all,
	  This is probably a real stupid question but I don't understand
	how it works.  I have FTP'ed some stuff(mac) to my Unix account
	and have no idea how to get the files onto the Mac. I am accessing
	the Unix machine via modem from a Mac. How do I get the FTP'ed
	files to copy to the MAC, and better yet, what do I do with them
	once I copy them over (Binhex? Unstuff???) I am using white knight
	for the modem.
	  Another thing. I know I can FTP Binhex to my Unix account, but if
	I am supposed to use Binhex to make the other files workable, how
	do I Binhex the FTP'ed Binhex file? I don't get it. 
	  I would greatly appreciate any help. As you can tell, I am pretty
	confused about the whole thing. Please respond to 
	hodgesc@prism.cs.orst.edu.

	Thanks in advance,
	Chris
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: malj8589@mach1.wlu.ca (maljkovich john)
Subject: Hard Drive Listings...
Organization: Wilfrid Laurier University
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 01:32:31 GMT

Hi.  I'm looking for any program that would give me a listing of every
single file and application that is present on several Hard Drives.

Any Suggestions?

Mail me back at :

malj8589@mach1.wlu.ca

Thanks

John


Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.system
From: twosheds@ferris.cray.com (Jay Vollmer)
Subject: Re: Anyone Using MaxAppleZoom under System 7?
Organization: Cray Research, Inc.
Date: 27 Jan 93 10:44:04 CST

In article <1993Jan26.105810.8668@smab.se> hans@smab.se (Hans C Larsson) writes:
>ostroff@oswego.Oswego.edu (Boyd Ostroff) writes:
>
>>I remember discussion that MaxAppleZoom broke under System 7, and I think
>>someone posted a fix possibly.  This was a year or so back, so naturally
>>I ignored it, but now I'm planning to upgrade.  Am currently running
>>System 6.0.7 on a IIcx and I would not want to give up MAZ in order to
>>run System 7.  I'm using MAZ 1.43 which I believe is the newest version.
>>So far as I know, the author, Naoto Horii is in Belgium and does not have
>>an e-mail address.  If you are using it sucessfully under Sys 7 I'd like
>>to know which version you have and where you got it.
>
>>Additionally, do you remember the big to-do when an undocumented "time bomb"
>>caused MAZ to stop working?  I thought I read somewhere that the new
>>version also had this "feature", so is it going to just stop working again?
>>(BTW, yes I did pay my shareware fee).

MAZ has an INIT resource that must load first.  There is no problem under
System 6.x, but with System 7.x's new startup methods it becomes necessary to
change things a bit.

To make MAZ work PERFECTLY under System 7.x, simply place it in the
"extensions" folder and place an alias of it in the "control-panels" folder.
-- 
___________________________
J.C. Vollmer (Clot Boulot)| Apart from the pulling and hauling
  Je suis revolutionnaire |                   stands what I am.
twosheds@ferris.cray.com  |                                   --Walt Whitman
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Distribution: world
From: Jonathan_Rochkind@laison.w8hd.org
Organization: L'AISON - Local Area Information Server Open Network
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 00:41:02 EDT
Subject: Re: OK, YES, I Know!!

  > Is there a utility/CDEV/INIT that will time 
  > out an "OK"?                                  

Yes, there is a control panel called "okey dokey" which does exactly that.
After a specified amount of time it will select the default button in a dialog
box.  I don't know an exact location, but I presume it can be found on umich
or sumex-aim.

* The views expressed in this posting are those of the author!
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc