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Article #29957Re: FKEY to blow away the finder - what's it for?
From: David Palmer
Date: Fri, 08 Jul 1988 23:57
Date: Fri, 08 Jul 1988 23:57
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In article <8807081621.AA09328@decwrl.dec.com> long@rainbo.dec.com (Now HE will ask the questions!) writes: >Hi, > > I finally put together the A9F4 FKEY to perform an ExitToShell. What > I'd like to know is "what's it good for?". People have been saying that > it can be used under MultiFinder to blow away the Finder, thus giving > more free memory, but how does this work? If all applications have > been loaded, blowing away the Finder doesn't help, and if they have not, it > still doesn't help, because then how does the application get loaded? Some programs launch other programs under Multifinder, most notably Lightspeed C version 3.0. You have to get rid of the finder (and change SIZE resources) to allow LSC3.0 to sublaunch the source-level debugger if you have only 1 Mb of memory. David Palmer palmer@tybalt.caltech.edu ...rutgers!cit-vax!tybalt.caltech.edu!palmer "Walt sent me"
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!helios.ee.lbl.gov!pasteur!ames!elroy!cit-vax!tybalt.caltech.edu!palmer From: palmer@tybalt.caltech.edu (David Palmer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: FKEY to blow away the finder - what's it for? Message-ID: <7210@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> Date: 8 Jul 88 23:57:17 GMT References: <8807081621.AA09328@decwrl.dec.com> Sender: news@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu Reply-To: palmer@tybalt.caltech.edu.UUCP (David Palmer) Organization: California Institute of Technology Lines: 18