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From: dee@XAIT.Xerox.COM (Donald Eastlake)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Is multifinder or finder running??
Message-ID: <51508@XAIT.Xerox.COM>
Date: 21 Dec 89 20:54:46 GMT
Reply-To: dee@XAIT.Xerox.COM (Donald Eastlake)
Organization: Xerox Advanced Information Technology, Cambridge, MA
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To get back to the original question, almost everyone (including
myself) has suggested relatively complex methods (digging around in
the apple menu) or multi step methods (first, is system 7 running,
if not then test...);  however, the more I think about it the more
it seems like just testing for _OSDispatch should do it.  That
certainly works for systems pre-7 and _OSDispatch is hardly likely
to go away in system 7.  Testing for the existance of a trap is
even a recommended technique (in general) by Apple.  Anyone see a
problem with this?
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