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From: boris@world.std.com (Boris Levitin)
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Subject: Re: Wanted: Software to Hide Windows
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Date: 6 Dec 90 18:45:47 GMT
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c60a-cz@danube.Berkeley.EDU (Donald Burr) writes:


>One of the features of System 7.0 is its ability to "hide" the windows
>of an application that isn't in the foreground, on MultiFinder.  Example:
>If you're in Microsoft Word, and you have a document window that fills up
>the whole screen, and you switch over to Finder to do some disk work,
>the Word window disappears, and leaves you with a completely empty desk-
>top, so no windows get in the way of selecting disks, files, etc.
>But when you switch into Word again, it reappears, with all stuff in
>it intact.

>Unfortunately, System 7.0 isn't available yet.

>Is there an INIT or some other piece of software that will bring this
>feature, or a similar such feature, to us users of 6.0.x?

MultiFinder 6.1b9, wherever MacOS software is to be found.