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From: dant@ryptyde.UUCP (Daniel Tracy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: Talking to the finder
Message-ID: <10@ryptyde.UUCP>
Date: 2 Jun 91 11:48:46 GMT
References: <1991Jun1.073802.3358@fennel.cc.uwa.oz.au>
Reply-To: dant@ryptyde.UUCP (Daniel Tracy)
Organization: Ryptyde Timesharing
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Responding to the following:

"I've been playing around with the new commands in HC2.1. I can get the finder
to "quit" from Hypercard - but I can't reopen it again.
Any suggestions?"

I don't know for sure whether or not this will work, but try the following:
Change the Finder's TYPE to "APPL". Without doing this, Hypercard 2.0 
wouldn't launch it even when I gave it the precise directory path. (actually
I haven't tried it after modifying the Finder but I assume it works). Also,
this doesn't have any effect on the Finder's use as a default application.
In fact, I've had pretty successful ventures using Hypercard as my shell
by renaming it 'Finder' and placing it in the System Folder (FUN!).