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From: earleh@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Earle R. Horton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Is multifinder or finder running??
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Date: 5 Dec 89 07:36:06 GMT
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In article <9190@hoptoad.uucp> tim@hoptoad.UUCP (Tim Maroney) writes:
>In article <17708@ea.ecn.purdue.edu> moyman@ee.ecn.purdue.edu (James M Moya)
>writes:
>>How do you determine (if possible) whether finder or multifinder is running
>>from within an application??  
>
>The official line is that there isn't a way, but this isn't true.
>Still, make sure that you really need to do this; don't do it lightly.
>
>Here's how.  First, if the system is 7.0 or higher, then MultiFinder is
>running; MultiFinder is always running on system 7.0 or higher.  You
>find out what system is running by calling SysEnvirons.  Second, if the
>system is 6.0.x, then MultiFinder may or may not be running; check it
>by seeing whether the last entry in the Apple menu is "About
>MultiFinder..."

The last check won't do much for you if the last item in the Apple
menu is "A-propos de MultiFinder," "Uber den MultiFinder," or
something in Kanji, Devanagari, Urdu, Hebrew, Arabic, Tamil,
Icelandic, Spanish, ...

Someone also mentioned looking for the next to the last Apple menu
item being a grey line, but that won't work either if there is just
one desk accessory installed.

You cannot get this information from the Apple menu.

Earle R. Horton