Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!ukc!edcastle!lfcs!nick From: nick@lfcs.ed.ac.uk (Nick Rothwell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: Killing the Finder to free up more RAM under Multifinder? Message-ID: <4266@castle.ed.ac.uk> Date: 28 May 90 11:51:54 GMT References: <16797@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> Reply-To: nick@lfcs.ed.ac.uk (Nick Rothwell) Organization: Jenny Agutter Appreciation Society of Edinburgh Lines: 19 In-reply-to: bskendig@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Brian Kendig) In article <16797@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>, bskendig@phoenix (Brian Kendig) writes: >Is there any Apple-approved way to kill the Finder when its memory >would best be used by other programs? Barring that, is there any >*kludge* to kill the Finder when its memory would best be used by >other programs? I installed an ExitToShell FKEY in the Finder to blow it away when I needed to (e.g. to free the Desktop file). It means you sometimes get windows left in the old open/closed state, but I haven't had any problems otherwise. > << Brian >> Nick. -- Nick Rothwell, Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science, Edinburgh. nick@lfcs.ed.ac.uk !mcsun!ukc!lfcs!nick ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ Ich weiss jetzt was kein Engel weiss