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From: thecloud@dhw68k.cts.com (Ken McLeod)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Shutdown & ReStart from MPW C
Summary: Nooooooooooooooo!
Keywords: MPW, c, shutdown, restart
Message-ID: <25949@dhw68k.cts.com>
Date: 27 Aug 89 10:02:40 GMT
References: <1499@unocss.UUCP>
Reply-To: thecloud@dhw68k.cts.com (Ken McLeod)
Organization: Wolfskill & Dowling residence; Anaheim, CA (USA)
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In article <1499@unocss.UUCP> payne@unocss.UUCP (Matt Payne) writes:
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>It would really be nice to shutdown the MAC II from within an application.

 Why??? Unless you're writing a Finder substitute, I can't think of any
good reason for doing this. Shutting down the machine should always be
completely under the user's control; if it occurs in an unexpected place
or at an unexpected time, confusion and frustration results.

 The routines for shutting off the Mac from software are given in the
Shutdown Manager chapter of Inside Macintosh vol.5. A quote from that
chapter:

 "Warning: ShutDwnPower and ShutDwnStart are used by the Finder and other
  system software; your application should have no need to call these
  two routines."

 I've personally been 'burned' by a few applications and HyperCard stacks
where what passed for a "Quit" button actually did a "Quit and Shutdown".
This is not friendly behavior.

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