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From: urlichs@smurf.ira.uka.de (Matthias Urlichs)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Finder Startup
Message-ID: <776@smurf.ira.uka.de>
Date: 30 Jan 89 19:57:24 GMT
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Reply-To: urlichs@smurf.ira.uka.de (Matthias Urlichs)
Organization: University of Karlsruhe, FRG
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In comp.sys.mac.programmer gillies@p.cs.uiuc.edu writes:
< 
< I am looking for documentation on what goes into the "Finder Startup"
< file in the system folder.  I want to be able to modify this file
< myself.  There are three resources, and one of them holds the name of
< the "finder startup" application, but it has a lot of other junk as
< well.  Does anyone on the net know exactly what's in this resource?
< Thanks...
< 
Same here, please!

BTW: I played around with this a bit a few days ago.
It seems that the Finder is capable of starting applications and documents
from as many folders (maybe even volumes - didn't check for that) as you like,
if only thgere was a way to tell the Finder to do it.
(And I don't mean hacking the resource with ResEdit.)

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