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From: austing@Apple.COM (Glenn L. Austin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Can MultiFinder turn itself on?
Message-ID: <28566@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 7 Apr 89 18:23:17 GMT
References: <7671@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> <2646@carthage.cs.swarthmore.edu>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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In article <7671@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> mha@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Mark H. Anbinder) writes:
> This may sound like a silly question, but is there any way that the
> Set Startup option could become set to MultiFinder instead of Finder
> through any way OTHER than the user doing so manually?

Yes, if a System and Finder have been moved to the hard disk, the boot blocks
are written on the hard disk.  I'm not sure, but I think that Installer will
also write the boot blocks on an upgrade to the System.


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