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From: guido@boring.UUCP
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Subject: Re: "Captive" Finder suggestion
Message-ID: <6642@boring.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 7-Oct-85 10:48:20 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct  7 10:48:20 1985
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In article <582@h-sc1.UUCP> costin@h-sc1.UUCP (dan costin) writes:
>That is, if I'm running the Finder on disk 1, and I call an application on
>disk 2, the program should terminate by running the Finder on disk 1, even if
>there is a System and a Finder on disk 2.  Ideally, the application should
>behave as if there were no System or Finder on disk 2.

The Lisa (Macintosh/XL) with hard disk already has this feature.  It works
with all Finders and System files I have seen, so I believe they have put
a different version of Launch and/or ExitToShell in the toolbox (which is
in RAM).

	Guido van Rossum, CWI, Amsterdam (guido@mcvax.UUCP)