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From: philip@Pescadero.Stanford.EDU (Philip Machanick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: fkey for restart
Keywords: fkey
Message-ID: <1990Jun14.190919.24269@Neon.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 14 Jun 90 19:09:19 GMT
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In article <11486@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>, agc@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Eric
Palmer) writes:
> Sometimes when I am in multifinder and I hava a program bomb, the
> mouse stops moving.  I can press the button and than will work, highlighting
> an icon, etc.  But the pointer will not change position.  This has happened 
> both when running someone else's programs and when I am working on
programs of 
> my own that I am debugging.  
> 
> After this happens, the only way I can get the mac to do anything is pressing
> the restart button.  I don't like to do this.  I was wondering if there was
> a fkey, or how one would create one, which would restart the mac
nicely, so it
> would save all the changes to the desktop, etc?  How else could this be done?
I find it pretty useful to have a keyboard shortcut for shutdown and restart
in the Finder. If you can make it back there, you can shut down / restart even
if you've had the dreaded mouse freeze. (Use Resedit to hack in the keyboard
shortcuts; I use OPTION-s and OPTION-r, i.e., hit COMMAND-OPTION-s to shut
down - not something likely to happen by mistake).

Philip Machanick
philip@pescadero.stanford.edu