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From: jackiw@cs.swarthmore.edu (Nick Jackiw)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Mac OS 6.0.4
Message-ID: <6JSD3FJ@cs.swarthmore.edu>
Date: 8 Feb 90 20:08:00 GMT
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Reply-To: jackiw@cs.swarthmore.edu (Nick Jackiw)
Organization: Visual Geometry Project, Swarthmore College, PA
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ben@ut-emx.UUCP (Benjamin J. Sloan) writes:
> As of at least system 6.0.4, holding down the option key while opening folder
> windows causes previous windows to close leaving open only the last window
> opened.  When returning to the Finder from an application, the last window
> opened is still on the screen.
> 
> What gives?
> 
> Ben Sloan

This presumably relates to the fact that an increasing number of users now
run Multifinder. In Multifinder, Finder never quits, so the old option-key
meaning (close windows on quitting Finder) never has a chance to operate
(except, I guess, after a Shutdown or Restart).

The new behavior, called "tunneling," is meant to assist you in limiting
open windows in the Finder without ever having to quit the Finder.

-Nick

-- 
-----Nicholas Jackiw [jackiw@cs.swarthmore.edu|jackiw@swarthmr.bitnet]-----
"Here is how I built this artificial mine. I snatched a female louse from the
hair of humanity. I was seen to lie with her on three successive nights, and
then I flung her into the pit."       _Maldoror_, Canto II