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: <4275@castle.ed.ac.uk> Date: 28 May 90 14:43:35 GMT References: <16797@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> Reply-To: nick@lfcs.ed.ac.uk (Nick Rothwell) Organization: Jenny Agutter Appreciation Society of Edinburgh Lines: 27 In-reply-to: juh@cs.hut.fi (Juha Hyv|nen) In article , juh@cs (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. This is the ExitToShell trap I mentioned earlier. > 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. No you don't. You can quite happily blow away the Finder. When all other applications finish (and that includes the DA Handler), the Finder will be restarted (as will any "Set Startup" tasks; looks like the Finder does these). 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