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In article <700@wpi.WPI.EDU> gshapiro@wpi.wpi.edu (Gregory N. Shapiro) writes:
>Recently APDA distributed a beta version of MultiFinder (6.2a1??) that
>was in beta testing.  One of the features that stands out in my mind is
>the ability to set aside application windows.  Does anyone have this
>new MultiFinder.  I would like to get a copy of it (through either
>InterNet of BitNet if possible)?  Anyone willing?

The beta version (thus 6.2b1 or so) was distributed only with SADE, which
required certain hooks built into this new MF to work.  APDA is the only legal
source I know of for this.  It does have a nice MDEF trick--changes a menu
item with the option key while the menu is down :-), like FullWrite Pro.
This toggles between Set Aside <app> and Set Aside Others.  Handy.

The interesting part, I found, is the new 'official' release of SADE with the
official MPW 3.0: it is distributed with System 7.0b1.  [Note: I haven't seen
this myself yet; this came from a colleague who was recently at an MPW class]
This new system is necessary since the new SADE uses Inter-Process
Communication.  It apparently works much more robustly than the previous,
although a few of the error messages are still sometimes out in right field.

The recommendation is to stick to 6.0.[23] unless you need the new SADE.

-cbb
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Chris Borton	borton%uva@mcvax.{nl,bitnet,uucp} 
Rotary Scholar, University of Amsterdam CS