Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!osu-cis!att!occrsh!uokmax!blknowle From: blknowle@uokmax.UUCP (Bradford L Knowles) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: No Finder with Multifinder Message-ID: <1417@uokmax.UUCP> Date: 16 Jun 88 14:04:00 GMT References: <6500032@hpindda.HP.COM> Reply-To: blknowle@uokmax.UUCP (Bradford L Knowles) Organization: University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK Lines: 37 In article <6500032@hpindda.HP.COM> atchison@hpindda.HP.COM (Lee Atchison) writes: >A question: > >How do I use Multifinder without the Finder? I want to use a finder >substitute. > >Actually, what I would really like is to be able to bring the finder >up anytime I want to, and remove it when I am done (like I did under >switcher). I would use QuicKeys to start applications, including the >Finder. Is THIS possible? > > -lee >---- >Lee Atchison >Hewlett Packard, Business Networks Division >Cupertino, CA 95014 >atchison%hpindda@hplabs.hp.com Talk to Rich Siegel at ThINK technologies (producers of the long awaited LightSpeed C 3.0 compiler and other wondrousness). He mentioned in a post to comp.sys.mac.programmer (I think that's what it's called) that he had created a Finder substitute that automatically removed itself from memory under MultiFinder when you launched another application. This may not be EXACTLY what you wanted, but I think it will come close. -Brad Knowles UUCP: ...!ihnp4!occrsh!uokmax!blknowle ARPA: blknowle@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu SNAIL: 1013 Mobile Circle Norman, OK 73071-2522 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Philosophy of Boris Yeltsin: "If one wants to be unemployed, one will criticize ones' boss. If one wants to be sent to Siberia, one will criticize the wife of ones' boss." -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Disclaimer: (The above opinions are my own. They have nothing to do with the Univeristy of Oklahoma nor intelligance of any sort. :-)