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...started slow. (This could be said of my college career as well--Tetris had a lot to do with both). I played around with Hypercard, installed Soundmaster and drew my own Start Up Screen. My sophomore year I discovered ResEdit (although I still don't use it much). The summer before my junior year I discovered The Macintosh Bible and made a skyrocket leap in knowledge. I started defragmenting my hard drive on a regular basis and upgraded my RAM to 4 megabytes (the maximum for my lovable but kludgy...
...rather concerned by the "Happy Hacker" column of January 7. The advice he gives regarding ResEdit is very dangerous indeed...
Though he is correct in saying that ResEdit allows one to change menus, dialog boxes, alerts and even fonts very easily, it is also somewhat risky. It is not uncommon for ResEdit to occasionally mess up. If one follows his advice, one just might destroy one's $129 Microsoft Word program...
When working with ResEdit, one should always make a backup copy. This is sometimes difficult with copy-protected software--like Microsoft Word. However, utility programs such as CopyIIMac and HardDiskUtil make this possible...
...While ResEdit allows casual users to modify the Macintosh in ways that would require a programmer on other systems, it is also fairly complex and can be used by programmers to create everything from simple menus to complete operating environments...