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From: alexis@panix.uucp (Alexis Rosen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Desktop Manager
Message-ID: <1990Nov4.091948.24571@panix.uucp>
Date: 4 Nov 90 09:19:48 GMT
References: <1990Oct30.163628.900@fog.ann-arbor.mi.us> <1990Oct31.220114.14952@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <1286@skye.cs.ed.ac.uk>
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In article <1286@skye.cs.ed.ac.uk> nick@lfcs.ed.ac.uk writes:
>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?

Life is no different with DTM, and likewise with 7.0. As you said, just
launch another program (your defragger, maybe), and then use the Fkey. It
works just fine.

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Alexis Rosen
Owner/Sysadmin, PANIX Public Access Unix, NY
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