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From: amanda@visix.com (Amanda Walker)
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Subject: Re: Death to the Finder ?
Message-ID: <1991Apr18.174342.221@visix.com>
Date: 18 Apr 91 17:43:42 GMT
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In article <=B5_#A_@smurf.sub.org> urlichs@smurf.sub.org (Matthias
Urlichs) writes:

   It seems to be possible to kill the Finder. The 7.0 Installer does it, for
   instance. I don't know how it does this; it probably just sends the Finder a
   QUIT AppleEvent.
   (Those newfangled events have to be good for _some_ things.  ;-)

Well, you can kill off the Finder the same you you can under System 6
(an ExitToShell FKEY, for example).  Your Apple menu will go away except
for anything that the applications themselves put in it, but it does work.
It frees up a 384K partition.  However, more things may depend on the
Finder in System 7.0 than in System 6.0; Virtual Memory may be a safer way
to squeeze in some extra memory space...

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