They may be confusing this with single user mode. (not a mode for most
mac users, but a way to run utilities like fsck whenever the mac acts
like it has the flu).
Jerry
On Thursday, March 6, 2003, at 03:46 AM, Jim/Marcia Bennett wrote:
> Harry,
>
> Regarding your question the other day about Safe Mode:
>
> I'm certainly no expert, but I can quote from Pogue's "Mac OS X: The
> Missing
> Manual"
>
> "There's no real equivalent to Safe Mode [a Windows way of
> booting] on
> the Mac. You can press the Shift key during startup to suppress the
> loading
> of certain software libraries , but that still doesn't produce a
> massively
> stripped-down machine like Safe Mode does."
>
> So I'm not sure what the earlier contributer who mentioned Safe Mode
> for OS
> X was referring to.
>
> Jim
>
>> From: "Harry Jacobson-Beyer" <harryjb at bellsouth.net>
>> Reply-To: macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu
>> Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2003 20:56:14 -0500
>> To: Macusergroup <macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu>
>> Subject: MacGroup: curious
>>
>> I'm curious. In the past month or so I have sent two messages to the
>> group asking questions and have not had one reply to either question.
>> I
>> get my message back and I get messages other people send and I get
>> responses to those messages.
>>
>> Are my messages getting through to the rest of you?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Harry
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will
>> | be March 25. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>.
>
>
>
> | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will
> | be March 25. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>.
>
>
>
| The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will
| be March 25. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>.
