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From: siegel@endor.uucp (Rich Siegel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Sleep entry in Special menu in Finder
Message-ID: <4519@husc6.harvard.edu>
Date: 26 Oct 90 10:06:16 GMT
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In article <929@h.cs.wvu.wvnet.edu> parker@cs.wvu.wvnet.edu (James Parker) writes:
>>In <1990Oct25.205254.18675@cec1.wustl.edu> jyp@wucs1.wustl.edu (Jerome Yvon Plun) writes:
>
>>>The Finder contains a Menu ID=15 which has a Sleep entry below ShutDown.
>>>What is this menu used for? (A/UX?).
>
>Seriously, the menu with sleep in it is added by Pyro 4.0.  Obviously,
>you copied a finder that belongs with a system that once had (or has)
>Pyro installed.
>
>I believe that the portable's 'sleep' is actually a DA called battery
>that performs as if it should be called sleep, but I guess Fifth Generation
>Systems had the copyright on sleep.

	Bzzt. :-)

	The "Sleep" menu command is in fact used on the Portable for putting
the machine into a sleep state. Pyro! performs a bit of legerdemain to make
the system you're running *think* it's capable of sleeping, and then gets
in on the command. (Either that, or the put in a bunch of bottlenecks, and
don't fool the system at all.) Either way, it makes no permanent modification
to the system; if you boot with Pyro! turned off, "Sleep" will not be in
the Finder's Special menu.

R.



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