Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site harvard.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!epsilon!zeta!sabre!bellcore!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!stew From: stew@harvard.ARPA (Stew Rubenstein) Newsgroups: net.micro.mac Subject: MiniFinder Message-ID: <223@harvard.ARPA> Date: Fri, 28-Jun-85 20:40:29 EDT Article-I.D.: harvard.223 Posted: Fri Jun 28 20:40:29 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 1-Jul-85 08:10:54 EDT Distribution: net Organization: Aiken Computation Laboratory, Harvard Lines: 22 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 {ihnp4, ut-sally, seismo} ! harvard ! rubenstein