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From: kent@sunfs3.Camex.COM (Kent Borg)
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Subject: Re: Death to the Finder ?
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Date: 22 Apr 91 17:58:22 GMT
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In article <72883@brunix.UUCP> daf@cs.brown.edu (David A. Fedor) writes:
>
>YES it is possible, and desirable to kill the Finder in system 7.  I am
>now running a finder which has a very convenient "Quit" item at the bottom
>of the file menu... just like any normal app.  When that is hit, the finder
>calmly cleans up and exits.  As Owen said, when the last application is
>quit, the finder will start up automatically (so as to avoid any meta-
>physical issues).  Hey, that's the same thing that happened pre-7.0.

Just this morning I proved to Owen that I was right (ask him), and now
I am already correcting myself.

I seems that if you bail out of Finder under 7.0 by using the
cmd-opt-esc feature, Finder will restart--at least whenever I try it,
and I think it has been doing it since at least 7.0a9.

Just a few minutes ago I tried it somewhat differently.  I dropped
down into Macsbug and did and "es" there.  (Took some work to catch
Finder using the CPU, uw would always be the current hog, even when
Finder was in front.  Finally I told Finder to do something and
tripped it before it finished.)  After the "es" Finder was nowhere to
be seen, and it has not restarted yet.

I am currently under 7.0 MultiFinder with only one app visible, uw.
(File Share is still functioning facelessly.)  The Apple menu has the
two uw items from above the line, but no dividing line nor Apple Menu
Items items.  The application menu is there but very uninteresting
with only one application running.  The Help menu is there, but uw
doesn't make very good use of it.

OK, you Apple folks who have been sitting back giggleing up until now
are welcome to tell us when the Finder will insist upon running, and
when it is mortal.  

Well??

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