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In article <362@ultb.UUCP> jjw7384@ultb.UUCP (J.J. Wasilko) writes:
>Does anyone have any idea if Switcher is still around? I've got version
>5.1, but it just bombs horribly (with System 6.02).

 Switcher is officially dead and unsupported. It does NOT work with
System 6.0x, and I don't believe it runs under 4.2 either.

>I think Switcher might still be useful for people with one meg... (such
>as myself) since MultiFinder seems to waste so much memory running
>Finder.

 You can achieve the same memory usage (or non-usage, actually) by
installing an 'ExitToShell' FKEY that will allow you to "Quit" the
Finder, thus freeing up 160K. To do this, you'll need ResEdit. Open
the Finder with ResEdit, and create a new resource of type FKEY. Open
this newly-created FKEY, and type A9F4 into the editing window (A9F4
is the trap number for _ExitToShell). Then close everything up, saving
changes when prompted. One other thing...use ResEdit's "Get Info" menu
command to change the FKEY resource's ID to a number (5..9 or 0) that
you'll use in conjunction with <command> and <shift> to invoke it.

 Once you're running something under MultiFinder, you can switch back
to the Finder and invoke your ExitToShell FKEY... the Finder "quits",
and you're in business. (One common use for this technique is running
THINK C in source-level-debugging mode on a 1 meg machine :-)) If you
need the Finder to "come back" for any reason, just quit all open
applications... it will return automagically.

 Hope this was helpful...

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