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From: lsr@Apple.COM (Larry Rosenstein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Determining whether MultiFinder is present
Message-ID: <10651@goofy.Apple.COM>
Date: 10 Oct 90 16:57:55 GMT
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ech@cbnewsk.att.com (ned.horvath) writes:

>"Background Printing" button; but two ought to suffice), then non-Apple
>programmers have that very same need to know.

Greg explained why this isn't true.  

>The simple example is that I need to know if "Launch" will return or not

This is acknowledged as something that should be ther ebut is missing.

>Grow up: he asked for help, for a "legit" way to test.  If you can

There is no legit way to test, where "legit" means something that is
supported by Apple.  On the contrary, DTS has explicitly warned against
this.

I argue that asking whether MF is presents is almost always the wrong
question.  In 99% of cases, people want to make the statement that "MF is
presents implies xxx about the system"; in those cases, they should be
asking if xxx is true.  

It is true that in some cases there is no way to ask the proper question.
The Launch question is known to be missing, and if there are other questions
that you want to ask then those should be brought up.  

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