Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!snorkelwacker!ira.uka.de!ifistg!ifi!momma From: momma@is.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de (Stefan Momma) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: Killing the Finder to free up more RAM under Multifinder? Message-ID: Date: 28 May 90 14:10:57 GMT References: <16797@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> Sender: news@ifistg.uucp Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.system Organization: IfI, Univ. Stuttgart, W Germany Lines: 27 In-reply-to: juh@cs.hut.fi's message of 28 May 90 06:56:02 GMT In article juh@cs.hut.fi (Juha Hyv|nen) writes: > Disclaimer: I have *NOT* tried this. I saw it in the April 1990 > issue of MacWorld (Quick Tips, page 233). > Summary: 1. Make a backup copy of the Finder. > 2. Use ResEdit to make a FKEY resource with the (hex) > string A9F4 into the Finder. > 3. Remember to change the FKEY resource ID > to 5...9 or 0 (zero). > 4. Quit ResEdit (save the changes). > Of course, now you need an alternate method to launch programs. Like, for example, Launch. Version 3.0 just made it to comp.binaries.mac Should also allow you to restart the finder afterwards. (Haven't tried it, of course) -- Stefan Momma voicemail:+49-711-121-1431 (-3138) (secr.: -3125) Projekt Polygloss Internet: momma@informatik.uni-stuttgart.dbp.de IMS-CL/IfI-AIS Because-It's-There-NET: nbab1424@ds0rus54 University of Stuttgart ICBMnet : 48 46 36 N; 9 10 48 E; alt 245 m SnailNet/Sneakernet: Keplerstrasse 17 D-7000 Stuttgart 1; Fed. Rep. of Germany