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From: David_Alan_Newman@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: System 6.0 breaks my CDEVS!
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Date: 16 Jun 88 14:38:20 GMT
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Ken McLeod asks:

> Question: how do you detect MultiFinder's presence or absence under 6.0?

We but the same question to Apple. Their response was, that there is NO
offical way to detect whether you're running under UniFinder or MultiFinder.
Their reason is that UniFinder will go away in a future system. In meantime,
we're kind of stuck. The MacDTS person even went as far as saying that
no one has given him a good reason for needing to know which Finder is
active. We told him why we wanted to know, but never received a response
back.

I urge others to make their reasons known to Apple as well. As long as our
1applications have to run under both Finders, there should be a way provided 
to know which it is.

Dave Newman
david_alan_newman@cup.portal.com