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From: owen@sunfs3.Camex.COM (Owen Hartnett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Death to the Finder ?
Message-ID: <1955@camex.COM>
Date: 19 Apr 91 18:40:51 GMT
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In article <1954@camex.COM> kent@sunfs3.Camex.COM (Kent Borg) writes:
>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.  ;-)
>
>It does?  Are you sure you are not judging based upon the fact that
>the 800K floppies are really running 6.0.7 as they install 7.0, and
>they do not run MultiFinder?

There's a key sequence to kill applications (at least in System 7.0FC series).
It's CMD-Option-Escape.  I got this from Pat Kuras, a local Apple Rep who
showed us some tricks with Sys/7  (doesn't it look like an IBM product when
you type it like that?)

This works with any applications, not just the Finder and kills the topmost
application.

-Owen
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