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From: philip@pescadero.Stanford.EDU (Philip Machanick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Disabling MultiFinder during Startup
Message-ID: <1990Sep11.172616.11187@Neon.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 11 Sep 90 17:26:16 GMT
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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 from
> >loading during the starup process.  Does anyone out there know how and when
> >one can do this?
> 
> 	Hold down the command key.  This also disables some INITs so, if you
> have any of those, hold the command key down after they load but before the
> Finder desktop appears.

I have a vague recollection that this is in the manual... But this is a _Mac_
we're talking about. 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?

Of course, in the much-anticipated System 7, there won't be an option to
turn off MultiFinder, but I mean as a general principle, isn't it time
this sort of thing was rooted out?

Philip Machanick
philip@pescadero.stanford.edu