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From: ollef@sics.se (Olle Furberg)
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Subject: Re: Disabling MultiFinder during Startup
Message-ID: <1990Sep11.233845.28287@sics.se>
Date: 11 Sep 90 23:38:45 GMT
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In <1990Sep11.172616.11187@Neon.Stanford.EDU> philip@pescadero.Stanford.EDU (Philip Machanick) writes:

>In article <1990Sep9.170159.13543@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>,
>jason@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Jason) writes:
>> talcott@nunki.usc.edu (Adam Talcott) writes:
>>  >I seem to remember reading somewhere that one could disable MultiFinder
>> Hold down the command key.  This also disables some INITs so, if you
>How did this dreadful practice of hiding features behind
>magic combinations of modifier keys sneak into common practice? Would it be
>all that difficult to pop up a dialog at launch time, giving a status report
>with some options to cancel things?

I agree with you that important things like MultiFinder, generating a post-
script file from the Laserwriter and looking at the hidden Zebra-girl in
MacPaint shouldn't be hidden in mysterious key combinations. But I don't like
your idea about a dialog box at startup time: I want a rather fast startup.

If you want a dialog asking for MultiFinder/no MultiFinder you could use
the utility ToMultiFinder (version 4.0) to accomplish exactly this (look
at sumex "info-mac/util/tomultifinder-40.hqx", shareware $15).

   /Olle