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From: kraig@biostr.washington.edu (Kraig Eno)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: Looking for XCMD/XCFN to eject disk and to shutdown
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Date: 16 Jan 91 01:45:43 GMT
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matt@acns.nwu.edu (Matt Larson) writes:
>I would like to be able to shutdown the Mac from within HyperCard

jkc@Apple.COM (John Kevin Calhoun) replies:
>This is not a good thing to do.  Unfortunately, there's no way to guarantee,
>if you shut down the Macintosh from within HyperCard, that HyperCard will
>have written everything out to the disk that has to be written ...

Would it work to use HyperCard's "open" command?  You can, for example, 
open Microsoft Word from within a script.  Could you make a small 
application called "Shutdown" (it probably already exists somewhere) and 
do the command

    open "Shutdown"

from within your script?  I would assume that HyperCard must do all its 
cleaning up before running a different app, but that's not necessarily the 
case, I suppose.


Kraig Eno, kraig@biostr.washington.edu
"Problems generate new knowledge" - M. Usui