Re: A Mac OS 8 feature not working properly...

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From: Bill Bedford
Date: Sun, 14 Jun 1998 00:00

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Simon Slavin <slavins.at.hearsay.demon.co.uk@localhost> wrote:

> In article <199806080046391617319@thebeast.demon.co.uk>,
> thebeast@nospam.demon.co.uk (Steve Rogers) wrote:
> 
> > Vernon Quaintance <vernon@dircon.co.uk> wrote:
> > 
> > > Whyever are you using such a roundabout route to switch programs?
> > 
> > When I'm already looking at About This Computer, it seems a reasonable
> > route.  And it shows signs of being intended to task-switch, or
> > something like.
> 
> Now I see why you were asking what you were asking.  No, it's nothing
> to do with task-switching ... more a kind of diagnostic aid.  There's
> never been any intention to use it to task-switch.  That's what the
> application menu in the top right-hand corner is for.


It's more complicated than that. About this Macintosh is providing
contexts for CMM's. Try control clicking on the header or on the finder
icon.

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