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From: daf@cs.brown.edu (David A. Fedor)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Shutting down the Finder
Keywords: Installer, Finder, System 7
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Date: 23 Apr 91 21:12:38 GMT
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In article <13127@goofy.Apple.COM> bjones@Apple.COM (Bruce Jones) writes:
>
>Is it unsafe for a user to shut down the Finder?  Nope.
>Is it inconvenient?  Yep.

Well, it doesn't need to be inconvenient.  As I posted earlier, it is
easy to add a menu item to the finder for a Quit item.  Since enough 
people are interested, here it is.  
NORMAL WARNING: not only is this unsupported, but finder 7.0 is unsupported...
this is totally at your own risk.  It works fine for me (better than that
cmd-opt-esc trick).

Open the finder with resedit.  Open the fmnu resource, id 1252.  This is
where the file menu contents are. 
Append the hex string 7175 6974 8100 0000 0451 7569 742E.  That's it!
If you want the greyed-out line above it, then first append the string
7878 7830 0000 0000 012D.
NEXT: the weird tricky thing.  For some very strange reason, the finder
(at least the version I am using) is silly about the order that it inserts
menus - it does it in the same order as they appear in the file.  Therefore,
once you edit the file menu, cut out and paste back in menus 1253, 1254,
1256 and 1255.  Yes, that order.  That will make them stay in order on 
the menu bar.  I got very confusing results before I figured out what was
going on!  So, they will read 1255, 1265, 1254, 1253, 1252, 1251 as you
read down the screen (assuming you've got the view to be 'by order in file',
of course)

If you've comments or problems, let me know!  I enjoy hacking this stuff.


>Can you believe this?  I actually have free time to post a NetNews article.
>System 7.0 must be close to finished :-)
>
>Bruce

Hooray!
-Dave