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From: dweisman@umiami.ir.miami.edu (Ordinary Man)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Death to the Finder ?
Message-ID: <1991Apr16.120334.9033@umiami.ir.miami.edu>
Date: 16 Apr 91 16:03:33 GMT
References: <1991Apr16.074738.4433@marlin.jcu.edu.au>
Organization: Univ of Miami IR
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In article <1991Apr16.074738.4433@marlin.jcu.edu.au>, chma@marlin.jcu.edu.au (Michael Antolovich) writes:

> 	I was wondering if the following still applies in System 7.0:- 
> Often when I start running out of memory, I kill the Finder and then I
> can launch more programs (small ones :-) using any of the application
> launching utilities (I use MasterJuggler).  Note I also have a largish
> Finder Partition (512K).  I seem to remember that one of System 7.0's
> features is that the memory partitions aren't fixed (ie when you kill a
> 500K program in Sys 6.etc you are left with a 500K hole in the middle
> if it was launched in between two other programs).  Would this mean the
> little hole made by the Finder at the front will be joined with the rest
> of the memeory at the end ?
> 					Michael.

Well, if I understand you correctly, you've been able to kill the finder and
use the memory it took up to launch another program. Unless I'm mistaken, you
can't kill Finder 7. It's gotta be around always. All the things you can open
from the apple menu seem to need the finder around.
	Besides, if you run so low on memory that you have to kill the finder,
you might want to upgrade. In the new "About this Macintosh..." menu item 
(used to be about the finder) you'll notice (if you see finder 7, that is) that
the memory used bar bundles the system, finder, and other programs in memory
into one line called "System Software". Finder and System are no longer 
separate. This would indicate to me that you can't trash the finder. Sorry.

Dan

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