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From: kent@sunfs3.Camex.COM (Kent Borg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Death to the Finder ?
Message-ID: <1956@camex.COM>
Date: 19 Apr 91 18:50:58 GMT
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In article <1955@camex.COM> owen@sunfs3.Camex.COM (Owen Hartnett) writes:
>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?)

Yes, don't type it like that.

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

Yes, the cmd-option-esc has been there for awhile (handy way for
non-Macsbug users to get out of runaway applications--seems to be just
like an ExitToShell()), and, yes, it can be used to kill the
Finder--but the bastard just starts right up again.

If the idea behind killing the Finder is to not have the Finder
running, then we need another idea.

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