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From: keith@Apple.COM (Keith Rollin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: determining if MF is running...
Message-ID: <36926@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 1 Dec 89 17:32:17 GMT
References: <64583@tiger.oxy.edu>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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In article <64583@tiger.oxy.edu> sonenbli@oxy.edu (Andrew D. Sonenblick) writes:
>ok, I'll probably be flamed, but when I distribute my beta versions to
>people to test it and when it's a version that as yet does not work
>properly/at all under MultiFinder, I simply check to see whether the
>next to last item in the apple menu is a dotted line... (after all, I don't
>know of any program in the past 6 years that ever had a line there except
>MF) and if so I kindly alert the user that their mac will self destruct,
>just kidding, I tell them that I'm MF unfriendly and then close myself...

What if this dotted line isn't there in the future? What if the "About Multi-
Finder" stuff is incorporated into the normal "About Finder" menu item, or
removed altogether? (Consider the chances of this rather high.)

Answer: you die...

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