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From: kiyun@mirror.UUCP (KiYun Roe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: ToMultiFinder FKEY - Anyone?
Message-ID: <21658@mirror.UUCP>
Date: 6 Jan 89 14:12:07 GMT
References: <1513@umbc3.UMD.EDU>
Reply-To: kiyun@prism.TMC.COM (KiYun Roe)
Organization: Mirror Systems, Cambridge Mass.
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In article <1513@umbc3.UMD.EDU> chris@umbc3.UMD.EDU (Chris Schanzle) writes:
>How trivial would it be for someone to write an FKEY to launch
>MultiFinder from the current system folder?  If the user is in an
>application, it would "Quit" in the normal fashion (as if the user
>selected "Quit"), then launch MF.

The next best thing is to write a little application that does nothing
but launch MultiFinder from the current blessed folder.  I wrote such
an application which I keep in a convenient folder or on the desktop.
Thus, I don't have to open my system folder to launch MultiFinder.
This is also a lot better than making a copy of MultiFinder and
changing its type to 'APPL', since you would have to do this each time
Apple released a new MultiFinder.

If you have QuickKeys or something similar, you could arrange to assign
a key combination to the launcher.  QuickKeys already knows to Quit the
current application if necessary.

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