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From: nick@cs.edinburgh.ac.uk (Nick Rothwell)
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Subject: Re: Desktop Manager
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Date: 1 Nov 90 17:56:07 GMT
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My question: what are all these disk optimisers and defragmenters going
to do when we're running Desktop Manager all the time, with its files
open all the time, under MultiFinder all the time?

pre-Desktop Manager, it's easy: launch some other program, blow away
the Finder with an ExitToShell FKEY, and away you go.

Will I need to keep a System 6.0.x floppy (non-DM) just to defragment
my disks under System 7.0? Or will there be a special close-down-DM
mechanism of some kind? Or what?

-- 
Nick Rothwell,	Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science, Edinburgh.
		nick@lfcs.ed.ac.uk    <Atlantic Ocean>!mcsun!ukc!lfcs!nick
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