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From: stew@harvard.ARPA (Stew Rubenstein)
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Subject: MiniFinder
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Date: Fri, 28-Jun-85 20:40:29 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jun 28 20:40:29 1985
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A couple of interesting things:  I don't know if it says this anywhere
in the documentation or not (I discovered it by disassembling the INIT
resource), but if you hold down the option key as you exit from an
application, the MiniFinder is bypassed, and the real Finder starts up.
If you use MegaMax C's batch facility, you have probably noticed that
if the minifinder is installed, it gets invoked after each line of
your batch file, and you have to double-click the "batch" program
to go on to the next step.  Holding down the option key throughout the
execution of a batch file is one way around this.  I was thinking of
ways I could rewire my keyboard so that the caps lock would be an
"option lock" instead, when I hit upon the following solution:
Patch the INIT resource so that it checks the Caps Lock key instead
of the Option key!  To do this, use FEdit to search your system file
for the Hex string 67F2 0838 0002 017B 66EA.  The ascii string "Minifinder"
should appear a few lines down.  Patch the 0002 to be an 0001 and
write out the block.  ShutDown, reboot, and presto!  The caps-lock
key is now a real-finder key!

Stew Rubenstein
Harvard Chemical Labs
rubenstein@harvard.arpa
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