Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ncar!dinl!snow
From: snow@dinl.uucp (john snow)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Need some MF help
Summary: just more stuff about multifinder
Keywords: MultiFinder
Message-ID: <992@dinl.mmc.UUCP>
Date: 11 Apr 89 21:55:40 GMT
References: <1562@neoucom.UUCP> <28399@apple.Apple.COM> <3637@brunix.UUCP> <28638@apple.Apple.COM>
Organization: Martin Marietta I&CS, Denver, CO.
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I don't know if my problem qualifies as a good reason for knowing
if multifinder is running, but it sure annoys me.  I am developing
a communications program which allows users to carry on conversations
over the appletalk network.  The origional version was written for
the finder so the node had to lock itself out of the net anytime the
user opened a DA.  The new version is written for multifinder so now
it can function in the background while the user does something else,
**if it's running under multifinder**.  So what should I do with this
application?  Use one of the unapproved methods and take my chances
on it breaking later;  write two versions, one for use under finder
and one for multifinder;  not write a program that takes advantage of
the multifinder capabilities; or should I use an Apple approved method
for determining the presence of multifinder so my program will work
forever more???

Just wondering.
	John Snow