Zap Read Me

============================ “READ ME” for Zap!, version 1.0 ============================ Copyright © 1992 Robert Gibson. All rights reserved. February 26, 1992 Font: Geneva 12 This document must go wherever Zap! goes. Please do not distribute Zap! without this documentation. Please do not modify this document. REGISTERING ZAP! AND THE 7.0 PLUS UTILITIES =========================================== Although Zap! is free, most of the 7.0 PLUS Utilities aren’t. If you use any of them, you must register them, one copy per person who will use them. 7.0 PLUS Utilities is a package of all System 7.0 utilities I have written. You can get the disk with all of them NOW (not wait until I decide to upload the next program) by sending $29.95 to me. This will register you for all the software, will get you a disk of the software, and an update to the PLUS Utilities when it rolls around. It’s a pretty good deal. You should register your software, anyway, so why not do it like this? And it’s a lot cheaper this way. See the description and registration form for the 7.0 PLUS Utilities later on in this document. USING ZAP! =========== • If you use Zap!, please please please send me a note. My addresses (post and e-mail) are given below in “About the Author”. What Does Zap! Do? ------------------ • Zap! provides you with a means of resetting the Parameter Ram without restarting your machine. • Normally, this can only be accomplished by zapping the PRAM with the command-shift-option-P-R key sequence (yes, hold them all down at once) on startup, or by using the old control panel, again with a weird key sequence and then restarting. Or you could pull the battery (only a good idea on a Mac with a battery that isn’t soldered on) — but this also resets the date and time. Using Zap! ---------- • Double-click on the Zap! icon under System 7, or open the Control Panel -1- DA and select the Zap! icon under System 6.0.X to open the Zap! window. • Click the Reset Parameter RAM button to Zap the PRAM. The flash that you see is just to show you that something has happened. Zapping the PRAM really doesn’t do that. You can hold down the option key while hitting the button to bypass the alert. • Click on the Zap! logo for information on the program. • System 7 Note: Although Zap! is a Control Panel, it does not have to be in the Control Panels folder to function properly. WHAT IS THE PARAMETER RAM? ============================ Information that needs to be preserved when the Macintosh is off is stored in Parameter RAM. The battery-powered clock chip stores this information along with the current date and time so they will be present at the next system startup. The Parameter RAM contains much of the information that you define through the standard Control Panels, including mouse, keyboard, speaker, alarm, and menu settings, monitor color depth, the default application font, the default…