Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ncar!ames!apple!keith
From: keith@Apple.COM (Keith Rollin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Shut down
Message-ID: <33397@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 23 Jul 89 05:07:07 GMT
References: <5378@<616852908> <227700014@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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In article <227700014@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu> jpd00964@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
>
>> I want to perform a Shut Down (as if the corresponding entry
>> had been selected from the Special menu in the Finder) from 
>> within an application.
>
>Have you checked out IM V-587.  They give the traps needed.

Unfortunately, these just shut down the machine, without any consideration for
other running applications. Only by selecting the options from the Finder
menu will the other applications be politely exitted, giving them a chance to
save documents, dictionaries, configurations, etc. 

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