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From: dorner@uxg.cso.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: I want my MiniFinder!
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Date: 15 Jun 88 17:14:00 GMT
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Nf-From: uxg.cso.uiuc.edu!dorner    Jun 15 12:14:00 1988


>and there is hardly enough room for the word processor's scratch
>space, let alone the Finder.  The MiniFinder was a logical alternative
>to make a bootable disk I could print with.  Now, it's gone, and I
>don't know what to do.  Sniff.

If you don't mind ugly, copy your word processor into the system folder,
trash the Finder, and rename your WP ``Finder''.  You'll boot straight into
it.  I do this all the time (but because I want to run Multifinder
w/out the Finder [the old can't-get-them-simms blues]).

I do agree that the Minifinder was handy for dealing with disk/memory
constraints.  But, as others have noted before, Apple is no longer concerned
with disk/memory constraints; somewhere along the line they decided
that anyone without pockets deep enough for lots of both isn't worth
supporting.

>*********************************************************************
>*Earle R. Horton, H.B. 8000, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 03755   *
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